Indian Antiquary Vol 07

SR No.: 032499
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 386
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1878.
pronounce and those who apply the science of necklace for the women which are the distant polity; and who was the promulgator of a regions, so as to last as long as the moon and treatise on the law of adoption.
stars might endure. His son (was) the glorious Harivarma, And again :-There was the venerable D 8. the Great King, the sapreme king,---who was vendra, the receptacle of virtuous qualities, possessed of the virtuous qualities of his father the leader of the sect called Dê vaga ņa,and his father's father; and whose fame was who traversed the ocean of the Siddhanta by flavoured with the waters of the four oceans, the strength of his boat which was his know(the sovereignty of) which he had acquired in ledge that shone in deciding controversies, and many battles (in which use was made) of ele- the ocean of worldly existence by the strength phants.
of the boat which was the excellent result of his Moreover :-His younger brother was Sri. good behaviour; and whose name was worthy Marasimha, who was a very lion of a king to be praised by learned people, who bowed in guarding the thicket which was the world; down to his devotion when it was declared. who was a very royal swan (of a king) in His sole disciple was Ekad êva, a very god adorning the lotus-pool which was the circle of among ascetics, preeminently brave in destroythe earth; the fame of whose (sirength of) arming the demon of unbridled lust; (every) worthy was great; and who had a reputation (equal person bears his ratnatrayal in his heart, and to that) of a king of the Krita age. At his takes his feet upon his head. victorious journeying forth, the lord of the The wise man Jayad ê va, who possessed Gurjaras received a rough command from the wealth of the scriptures, which are extolled, messengers :-“O Sir!; at the order of the was celebrated by being the first disciple of king" who destroyed the Cholas, the chief him, who was honoured by honourable ones, of the Gangas comes quickly against thee; and who was the foremost of great people. cease to fight with the unequalled force of And again :-Eight centuries of years and (thy) enemy, which possesses the pride of the ninety (years) having expired in the era of the array and accoutrements of elephants and Sak a kings, while the Vibhava samvatsara horses, and prepare to depart across the (river) was current --he, Ganga-Kandarpa,--who Ganga.” A very philosopher's stone in sup- was a very jewelled pitcher wherewith to perporting his servants, who were as bees at the petually besprinkle Jinêndra, who is the lotuses which were his feet; a very amulet of most auspicious (god) in the world; (who was protection against the hostile kings, who were called) Satyavá kya-Kong univarma, disquieted by the apprehension of fear; a very the pious Great King, the supreme king, the pearl to make lustrous the virtuous qualities supreme lord ; and who had the first name of that were the omaments of the throats of learn- sri. Marasimhad êva-gave to him a ed men; divine; performing achievements that plot of ground, to the east of the city of Puli. were worthy to be praised by good people;- gere, for the purposes of the charity and the (such was he), the chief of the Gangas. worship and the enjoyment of the god of the When he was staying in the courtyard of the shrine of Jinêndra of Ganga-Kandarpa, habitation of the goddess of fortune, at the con- which is the ornament of the circuit of the fluence of the Mand a kini's, which was pro- temples called Sankhavasati and Tir. duced by the trickling of the water (used) in tha vasati. the rite of ablution of Jinêndra, and of the The boundaries of it are described, as Kalindi, which was made to cease to be follows:-On the east of the lake of Kumari, white by the rut of the wounded elephants of there are two stones at the distance of one his fierce enemies,--the fame of the king Gan- nivartana. On the south of them, there is the ga-Kandarpa, which surpassed the moon western boundary of the village of Beka nûr. (in the purity of its lustre), spread abroad as a On the south-east of that, there is the lake of
15 Chaturdanta, 'having four tusks', is an epithet of Airavata, the elephant of Indra, but seems here to mean elephants in general.
18 Akritin, clumsy, unoouth.' » Probably Harivarma.
16 The Gangs, or Ganges.
10 The jewel-triad,' or three excellent things of Jainism, via.-1, samyak.charitra, correct conduct; 2, samyag. jina, complete knowledge, and 3, sanvyaj-darsana, mcurate perception.