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⁴ The different versions of this passage in line 6 of the inscr. depend chiefly, though not solely, on the translation of *ti-vasa-sata*. The following renderings have been proposed:
(1) 'He opened the three-yearly almshouse of Nandarāja' (Pandit Bhagvānlāl Indrājī, *Trans. Inter. Or. Cong.*, Leiden, 1884, Part 3, p. 135. *Sata* = *sattra* or *çatra*, cf. *Ep. Ind.*, x, *Appendix*, no. 967, p. 100, and no. 985, p. 102);
(2) 'He had an aqueduct, that had not been used for 103 years since king Nanda (or since the Nanda kings), conducted into the city' (Prof. Lüders, *Ep. Ind.*, x, *Appendix*, no. 1345, p. 161. *Sata* = *çata*, as also in the next translation);
(3) 'He brings into the capital...the canal excavated by king Nanda three centuries before' (Mr J. P. Jayaswal and Mr R. D. Banerji, *Jour. Bihar and Orissa Research Soc.*, Dec. 1917, pp. 425 ff.).