The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.140

v2.c16.140

The words of the concluding part of the last sentence of the preceding line are all tolerably clear, and their meanings obvious. They are: 1st, *gandhava-veda-budha* ‘men proficient’ (*budha*) ‘in the art’ (*veda*, Sanskrit *vidyā*,) of music’ (*gandhava*). 2nd *danpana-tabhata-vādita*, ‘the musical instruments (vādita) named dampana and tabhata’. 3rd, *sandasanāhim*, ‘worthy of being beheld’, Sanskrit *sandarsanārha*. 4th, *usava*, Sanskrit *utsava*, ‘entertainment’. 5th, *samajakārāpanāpi* ‘recitation of dramatic compositions’; both the last in the objective case joined by the conjunction. 6th, *cha*, ‘and’. 7th, *kidāpayati*, ‘causes to be played’, Sanskrit *kridayati*. 8th, *nagarī*, ‘dancing girls’. The meaning of the whole santence will accordingly be: “In the next year, for the gratification of those who had come from the Kansa forest, as also for that of the inhabitants of the city of Tānasika, he causes to be celebrated an entertainment with the music of the *dampana*, *tabhata*, and other musical instruments, by persons proficient in the science of music and a dramatic performance by dancing girls”.