Epigraphia Indica Vol 01

SR No.: 032555
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1893
Total Pages: 528
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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KHAJURAHO INSCRIPTION No. II.
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(V. 29.) [This verse, of which a portion is more or less illegible in the original, appears to say that the wives of the enemies considered his face more beautiful even than the moon and the lotus).
(30.) At the conquest of the regions, his soldiers gradually managed to ascend the slopes of the snowy mountain, where plentiful flowers had been gathered by Umå from every tree of paradise; where the troops of horses became unmanageable with fright at the gurgling sound of the torrents of the Ganges, (and) which were crowded with (his) mighty elephants, terrified at the roaring of lions suddenly awakened from their sleep.
(31.) (He easily conquered the Kalañjara mountain, the dwelling place of Siva, which is so high that it impedes the progress of the sun at mid-day.]
(82.) By people who, since they began to handle the sword, have never ceased to observe the vow of heroism, by those who from childhood have never broken their plighted faith, by those who, till their hands began to ache, have bestowed ample wealth on suppliants, as well as hy those who wish to have their desires fulfilled, he is praised by (all) good men, enraptured at the tales of his high pre-eminence.
(83.) The people, among whom the notion of his being a human being had been banished by his manliness, certainly did absolve his fame from all blame for going to the sea, afraid as it was of incurring censure by coming in contact with other men, and of never obtaining rest if it were constantly to roam about.
(34.) By (having given birth to this steadfast (prince), Kanchhukå alone in this world carried her head erect (with pride) at the birth of a son, just as Devaki did by giving birth to) the enemy of Madhu.
(35.) Since the wives of the Siddhas sing his fame, the ornament of all faultless rulers, (which is) charming by reason of (his) heroism, generosity, wisdom, and a multitude of other spotless qualities, - to laud him, that sun in scattering the enemies, is like illumining the thousand-rayed (sun), when it has clearly manifested the three worlds.
(86.) In battle, the impetuous massive arms of that ocean of regal splendour, engaged in conquering the earth, did not cease to itch, even though the enemies.-their sight bewildered, when their minds were frightened by the loud fearful sound of the twanging of the string of his terrible large bow, crooked like the brow of the enraged god of death and emitting a shrill sound, -had clearly disappeared, nobody knew whither.
(37.) Whoever attempts to describe in words the expansion of the fame, pleasing like the autumnal moon, of the prince Lakshavarman, that foolish-minded person looks, because he is familiar with the light of a lamp, up to the lord of the day at mid. day.
(88.) This bright fame of his, which rivals the great splendour of the moon, proceeds to regions which (even) the sin-destroying Vamana did not reach, when he rapidly crossed over the earth on the occasion of cheating the guileless-minded Bali, (and) which the sun (even) does not reach, because its rays are impeded by the hundreds of peaks of the Lokaloka mountains.
According to Mano, III, 168, those who undertake voyages by so, doverve congere and should be avoided.-I should have expected the particle fa to connect the two halves of the worse, and am inclined to read vefato , instead of Tonftat..