Epigraphia Indica Vol 09

SR No.: 032563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch, Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 498
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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No. 4.]
TWO GRANTS OF IN DRARAJA III.
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was the toy-lotus, resplendent as the disc of the fall moon, on the palm of the hand of Lakshmi ; another again (was snatched away by him) from the king of the northern (country) as if it were (his) glory.
(V. 11.) From him obtained birth Jagattunga, who honoured the twice-born; he in his turn begat as son the king of kings Srivallabha.
(V. 12.) This (prince), possessed of fortitude, on raising again the glory of the Ratta king. dom, drowned in the ocean of the Chalukyas, became i.e. assumed the epithet of) Viranarayana, just as (Vishọa), again uplifting the earth, drowned in the ocean, became Viran rayana (1.e. the heroic Narayaņa).
(V. 13.) Having, by means of punishment, pat down obnoxious persons, he destroyed the fiery Chalukyas, (his) enemies, who had completely devastated (the city of) Stamba, just as (a gardener), after removing the thorns by means of a stick, barns chick-peas, the stalks of which have been plucked out with the roots.
(V. 14.) From him, who was the comet of destruction to the plantain tree, (vis.) the high family of the Chalukyas, was born Kộishnaraja (II.), of spotless life, whose fame, bright as the moon, wanders about, though constantly drunk by the people by means of the cavities of (their) ears.
(V. 15.) On the advent of clouds, when there is a heavy downpour of rain (and) when the circular rainbow (appears in the sky), the old men thus describe the event of his fight with the roaring Gûrjara :-"Thus did (he) in anger draw (his) bow, studded with a series of gems darting forth rays; thus did (he) discharge arrows at the heads of the warriors of (his) enemy."
(V. 16.) From him was born the illustrious Jagattungadêva, who caused the destruction of the multitude of his enemies, who surpassed the beauty of Madana, who was the beloved of the goddess of Heroism, (the palm of each of) whose bands (bore the auspicious sign of) a discus shining by means of the marks of) a banner, a lotus and a conch, (and) who (thus) by (his) greatness excelled Vishnu.
(V. 17.) There was a king (named) Sahasrarjuna, sprung from the Haihaya lineage, who relieved the itching sensation of the powerful and shining long arms of the roaring and invincible Rêvana, (and) the letters (setting forth) whose fame and name, finding & resting place in the ears of the gods, (and) written by the Siddhas with the dense fluid of nectar, covered the walls of the quarters.
(V. 18.) In the dynasty of him who was an axe to the families of (his) enemies, there arose the renowned illustrious king Ranavigraha, the son of king Kokkalla (and) the lord of Chêdi, into whose circle of feudatory princes), pilferer as he was of the ornaments of the wives of (his) enemies, entered every enfeebled lord of the earth on the destruction of (his) partisans, just as the moon, destitute of (all) the digits, enters the disc of the sun at the end of the (dark) fortnight.
(V. 19.) From him who was the receptacle of a collection of all virtues (and) the abode of resplendent majesty, there was born a daughter (named) Lakshmi, possessed of lotas-like hands, [just as from the ocean, which is the abode of the sun) of intensely gleaming rays, there sprang Lakhsmi, possessed of a lotus in (her) hand); Jagattungadeva, the moon to the nightlotus of the Yadu race (and) the ravisher of the hearts of beautiful women, married her (vie. Lakshmi, the daughter of Ranavigraha), just as Hari, the moon to the night-lotus of the Yadu race (and) the ravisher of the hearts of beautiful women, married her (vis. the goddess Lakshmi).
The same as Tamralipta, i.e. Tamlak; see p. 27 above. [Compare sibupalavadha, I. 48.]