The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.163

v2.c16.163

[24] Prinsep has not noticed this line, and there are only a few words which can be identified in it with anything approaching to certainty. The first legible part ends with a verb *payayati*, ‘he caused to be established’, but the object is not apparent. In the next sentence the name of Nanda Rājā is clear enough, and so is the word *magadha rājani*, ‘the kings of Magadha’, with the exception of the letters *m* and *g* which are very faint and almost illegible in my cast. The purport seems to be that the country of Magadha was well governed, (*vahaga sāsita*,) after the expulsion of Nanda Rājā; but this is the merest conjecture.