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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Stride First He, O noble sirs, who has created all this : the ocean, the earth, mountains, trees and the constellations in the celestial expanse-may He, O wise sirs, bestow blessing on you //1
Bow down, men of culture to that creator to whom humans, gods and Vidyadharas and the sun and the moon(too) in the celestial course bow down. //2
There is the Mleccha country foremost in the Western region, and renowned of old. In that country was born a weaver an a called of Mirasena. //3
His son was Addahamana who was Like a lotus to his family. He was famous for his Prakrit poems and musical compositions. (He) has composed this Sandesarasaka. 1/4
Homage to the well-grounded excellent poets of yore, in the three worlds, who were proficient in grammar and who wrote and prescribed excellent Treatises of Prosody. // 5
Who moreover composed in Apabhamsa, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Paisacika languages excellent poetry, embellished with (excellencies of) grammar and metre.//6
As it is them we succeed,. who would extol the bad poety, devoid of the excellencies of grammar and metre, of poets like us ignorant of sacred works and grammar? // 7
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