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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(Verse 5.) "This sole lord of the world, a wonderful abode of courage, who all around uprooted with his arm, that is akin to the thunderbolt, the firmly rooted mountain-like kings, was called by his people king Narayana.
(6) "The glorious lord Vaidyanatba (Siva), whose might destroys the misfortune of the torment of the world, placed in him, the ornament of the whole Kshatriya race, & portion of his Self; and he who had taken the vow of benefiting the universe, cured, As was proper, with his weapons even the big swellings of pride in the hearts of hostile kings."
(7.) His consort was Nagalladevi, who clave to his body just as the glory of victory; through her that king was exceedingly resplendent, like the god bearing the deer-mark (the moon) through his brilliant light.
(8.) "That king, the prowess of whose arm took rest (only when it reached) the boundaries of the quarters of the horizon, whose younger brother was Pratapamalla, enjoyed the earth which, owing to the excess of his taste for wonderful bravery, was overshadowed by a single parasol."
(9.) “ After the illustrious Visvamalla had anointed Arjuna, the son of Prata pa. malla, to be his successor, he enjoyed (in Svarga) banquets of ambrosia and the nectar of the lips of the celestial maidens."
(10.) “That crest-jewel of princes, bis majesty Arjuna, who was lovely on account of virtues resplendent like the rays of the full moon, and who, an incarnation as it were of a portion of Damodara, gained great glory through his valour, drew riches from the earth as if it were the cow of plenty."
(11.) “After that guiltless man, an incarnation of Krishna, had grasped, in order to punish the wicked, the circle of the earth with his hand, that by its liberality surpassed the tree of paradise, he, indeed, protected his subjects through his noble deeds."
(12.) " Victorious is the issue of his body, his majesty Saranga, whose heart is immersed in the happiness produced by his amorous dalliance with the Fortuna of the Garjara kingdom, who is passionately addicted to the sport of rescuing the earth and who possesses a dignity (equal to that) of Sarngadhara."
(18.) "Through his power he in battle reduced the powers of the Yadava and the MAlava lords, just as the lord of birds formerly (orercame) the huge-bodied elephant and the tortoise."
Though these verses, for the greater part, contain nothing but mere verbiage, they yet yield some new facts concerning the history of the Vagheles. First we learn that the full Sanskrit name of the first king of this race, who in the Prabandhas is usually called Visala or more rarely Visvala, was Vißvamalla, " the wrestler of the Universe." This appellation, which has its analogies in Åhavamalla, Yuddhamalla (Jodhmall), Prithivimalla and Jaganmalla (Jagmall), and so forth, was no doubt the original and real one; and Visvala, of which Visala is the Prakrit representative, is either an abbreviation from it, formed bhimavat with the addition of the affix la, or a corruption of Vis yamalla like Rudrata for Rudrabhatta, Mammaţa for Mahimabhatta and Jaiyata for Jayabhatta, in which the last letter la does duty for the second part of the compound, malla.
The second point of historical interest which the inscription offers, is the statoment that Vistamalla had a younger brother, called Pratápamalla, and that the