Epigraphia Indica Vol 06

SR No.: 032560
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 482
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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with the Gurjaras, those who dwell in the hill-fort of Chitrakuta, and then the lords of Kâñichi, he became (known as) Kirtinârâyaṇa.
(V. 6; 1. 7). (And then there came his son) Atisayadhavala-(Amôghavarsha I.), whose feet are rubbed by the diadems of hostile kings (bowing down before him), and whose heroism is praised throughout the whole world, and who is worshipped by the lords of Vanga, Anga, Magadha, Mâļava, and Vengi.
(Line 9)-Om! Hail! Fortune! While, to an extent ever greater and greater, the increase of the sovereignty of him, Lakshmivallabhendra, who is distinguished by the name of the glorious Amôghavarsha-Nripatunga,- the Maharajadhiraja and Paramésvara and Bhattaraka who has attained the pañchamahásabda ; he who has covered all the territories of the numerous chieftains of the hostile kings, over the whole surface of the earth which is girdled by the belt of the four oceans, with his thousands of courtesans decorated with waistbands and belts round their hips and ear-rings and armlets and necklaces, and with the darkness (caused by the multitude) of his chauris, and with his very brightly shining (?) three white umbrellas, and with his battle-horns and conches, and with his broad standard of the palidhvaja-banner and his (other) flags; he who is a born leader of armies; he whose feet, resembling water-lilies, are rubbed by the lofty tiaras and diadems (bowed down before him) of Dandanayakas (in charge) of capitals and groups of places, and of chieftains and other lords of districts (?); he who has conquered his foes; he who is a very staff of Death to the host of his enemies; he who breaks down the pride of wicked people; he who is a very unfailing Râma; he who is a very lion to the army of his enemies; he who subdues gods and demons; he who causes fear to his foes; he who captivates the minds of truthful women; he who is the habitation of haughtiness; he who has been born in the race of the Raṭṭas; he who has the Garuda-crest; he who is heralded in public with the sounds of the musical instrument called ţivili; (he who has the hereditary title of) supreme lord of the town of Lattalûra,was continuing, like the sovereignty of the great Vishnu, so as to endure as long as the moon and sun might last:
(L. 18)- While the Vyaya samvatsara, the seven [hundred and eighty-eighth] of the centuries of years elapsed of the era of the Saka kings, was current; and while the
1 Ie. "a very Narayana (Vishnu) in fame." A verse in the description of Govinda III. in the Baroda grant of A.D. 811 or 812 presents this biruda in the form of Kirtiparasha (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 159, text line 24). I then translated it by "the personification of fame." But there is no real authority for that. And, on the other hand, Purusha was Vishnu, who, again, was Narayana; and the composer of that verse evidently used Kirtipurusha instead of Kirtinarayana, simply to suit his convenience in framing his lines.- The Sirûr version of the verse has, instead of jatah, jigati, which was then corrected into jagati," he (became known as) Kirtinârâyana on the earth." The Chinchli inscription of A.D. 897-98 (mentioned in note 8 on page 105 above), however, presents clearly játah, again. And jdta, which means ordinarily born,' seems to be used here in the meaning of happened, become, present, apparent, manifest.'
2 We might take this as simply an epithet, and translate it by "the chief among the husbands or favourites of Lakshmi or Fortune." But various analogies justify us in finding in this word a formal vallabha-appellation of Amoghavarsha I., which in its simplest form would be Lakshmivallabha.
The present passage is one of a limited number in which this epithet is applied to paramount sovereigns. Two other instances have been given by me in Gupta Inscriptions, p. 296, note 9; and a few others will be
adduced on some more convenient occasion.
The genitive mandalikarkald seems to be governed by digantar-ella, the last member of the following compound, rather than by any of the preceding members of it.
From talavarga, which we have here and in Sirar, line 10, we have Talavargin, which occurs as an official title in Vol. IV. above, p. 258, text line 14.
Kittel's Dictionary gives badde, 'a truthful woman,' and indicates that it is a feminine form of badda, ' firm, true,' which is a tadbhava-corruption of the Sanskrit baddha. The whole word badde-mandhara,-half Kanarese, half Sanskrit, is a viruddha-samdsa (more popularly known as an arisamdea), "an incongruous or improper compound, a compound of heterogeneous words or words dissimilar in kind," which, according to the Sabdamanidarpana, sutra 174, is allowed only when sanctioned by poets of old, as, for instance, especially in biradas.