Epigraphia Indica Vol 15

SR No.: 032569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 478
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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No. 6.]
INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
30 Int-i dharmmamaṁ Saṇḍiy-aruvar-ggavundagalam-enbar-sseṭṭiyarum
sva-dharmmadim rakshisu
31 ttam-irppar ||
99
kai-kondu
TRANSLATION.
(Lines 2-3.) Hail! The asylum of the whole world, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyasraya's race, embellishment of the Chalukyas, Bhuvanaikamalla-vallabha :
(Verse 2.) A shatterer of the pride of the potent Chōla monarch, a blazing submarine fire to the ocean that is the race of the Malavyas, a wind to the clouds that are the kings of the Angas, Vangas, Khasas, and Vemgi, the Pandyas, Saurashtras, Keralas, Nēpāļas, Turushkas, Cheras, and Magadhas, is the Chalukyan lion in the circuit of the ocean-girt earth.
(Verse 3.) Of heroic descent, a support of the universe, a hero, a renowned ornament of all emperors, Bhuvanaikamalla-vallabha has ruled the earth with sole dominion.
(Lines 7-9.) While the victorious reign of king Bhuvanaikamalla, who is thus renowned, was proceeding in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) as long as moon, sun, and stars, and he was reigning in the enjoyment of pleasant conversations, the gentleman of the god Pañicha-linga, who is attached to (the temple of) Nagaresvara in the capital city Süpḍi
(Verse 4.) A primal Buddha to the Buddhist, a primal Jina to an Akalanka,1 an Akshapada [Gotama] to the student of logic, a Kapada skilled in discrimination of all meanings to the student of (the science of) the soul, and likewise a Jaimini indeed to the student of (scriptural) texts, a Brihaspati to the student in the realm of grammar: thus was the master of (the temple of) Nagare vara renowned.
Lākuļisvara sect?
(Verse 5.) Sōmēsvara... lacking the tokens (of Siva) consisting of a mass of braided locks (shaped like) a dovecot and decorated by the deer-figured (moon), the fiery eye, the tigerskin,. ornaments, the trident, yet an Isvara [Lord, or Siva] without peer(?)
how now can a panegyrist (fitly) praise his mastery [Pover the doctrines of the]
(Lines 14-18.) To Somesvara-pandita-dēva, who is thus renowned, possessing the merits of practice of the major and minor disciplines, scriptural study, meditation, spiritual concentration, observance of silence, prayer, and absorption, favouring the Lakula traditions, a royal swan in the lake of Sankhya doctrine, an ear-jewel of the lady of Nyaya doctrine, a crest-jewel of Vaiseshika doctrine. . . for the personal enjoyment of the god Pañcha-linga, for the dispensation of knowledge and dispensation of food to local learned men and ascetics,
(Lines 18-21.) Hail! on Sunday... of Phalguna in the Saka year 996, the cyclic year Ananda, king Bhuvanaikamalla, [? having passed] several days in Vikramapura, within the Kisukaḍ seventy, laved the feet of the Pandit, poured water over his bands, and assigned to him as a universally respected estate with the eight rights of enjoyment the town of Musiyagere, within the Kisukaḍ seventy.
(Lines 21-28.) Its bounds are: on the east, Machi's Tank; on the south-east, the muggudde of Kallamanar and Gulagavalli, the hillocks of Pärtha, there a dressed stone; of the south, the hillock of the ankole shrubs above the Dry-land (?) bank, there a dressed stone;
1 Properly Akalanka is the name of a famous Jain divine; but here it seems to denote, by the chhattri nyaya, Jain theologians generally. The whole passage means that Somesvara was a master of the lore of all the schools mentioned. See above, Vol. XIII, p. 34. The shrub Alangium Lamarckii. N 2
Male, which I assume to be the same as the meds of the dictionary.