The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.141

v2.c16.141

The next sentence is incomplete, several words at its end being illegible. The words at its beginning are: 1st, *tatha*, ‘next’. 2nd, *chatutha vase*, ‘in the fourth year’. Prinsep reads this word *vivatha vase*, and renders it into “turning his mind to law”, but the first two letters are not clear, and as far as I can make them out, they support my reading, which is also in keeping with the *ditiya-vase*, ‘in the second year’, and *puna-vase* “in the next year” of the preceding sentences. 3rd, *vijādharādi-vase*, ‘in the house of the learned’, Sanskrit *vīdyādharādi-vāse*. 4th, *ahata*, ‘Arhats’ or Buddhist saints. 5th, *purvakalingapura rājana*, ‘kings of the city of eastern Kaliṅga’, Here ten or twelve letters are lost, then follow probably the earlier words of a new sentence. 6th, *vata dhama ṭīta*,—*vata* for *vrata*, ‘devotion’, *dhama* for *dharma*, ‘religion’, *ṭīta* for *tita*, ‘moistened’, ‘absorbd in acts of devotion’. 7th, *sarā*, followed by three illegible letters. 8th, *tāritacha*. 9th, *nikhita*, ‘forsaken’, ‘given up’, Sanskrit *nikṣipta*. 10th, *chhata*, ‘umbrella’, or more probably a corruption of *sata*, a hundred’.