The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.137

v2.c16.137

The next sentence says that 'for those who had come from the Kansa forest', *kansavanāgatāya*, 'to behold', *darsanāya*, the rejoicings, 'as also for those', *vā tatānam*, 'who were inhabitants of the city of Sika', *sikanagaravāsino*, 'by virtue of his great merit', *punavase*. The conclusion of the sentence occurs in the next line. The reading of the letters here given is not very certain: for *vā* I wish to read *cha*, and join *tāna* with *sika* to make the name of the town Tānasika. The last word admits of three different renderings; it any mean 'influenced by his virtue', Sanskrit *punyavasatah*; 'or in the next year', Sanskrit *punavarshe* 'or in a sacred place', Sanskrit *punyāvāshe* and any one of them would be appropriate. Prinsep accepts the first. The second appears to me to be very likely, coming as it does, after the "second year" of the [22] preceding sentence, and before "the fourth year" of a succeeding one; but the third may be defended as pointing out the locality of the rejoicings which form the subject of the narration.