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VALABHI DYNASTY.
choice viz. Royalty, who possessed valour unconquerable and enough to bend down all his enemies (like hoger?), who in due order collected every autumn the annual tribute from the lands of tlic enemies, adorned with arrows powerfully drawn on bows, whosc hearing was lucid with the knowledge of the Stotras acquired even from carly age, looking fine with various Varas, whose cars had also the new superfluous ornaments of jewels, whose hand shone like a bright moss-rose being wet with the water poured from it in the act of giving constant gifts, and shining with various armlets, jewels and other ornaments, whose arms contained within them the whole universe being as it were the barriers to the rising ocean, and who was a great devotee of Saykara;---son of Sri Derabhatta, who constantly bent down before his father in devotion :
.. (1), whoso head was ever purified as it were by the very white waters of the Garges of the rays of the jewel-like nails proceeding from the feet (of his father), who showed much skill ruid wistlom like Agastya Muni, who mocked the wide-spreading halo of the inoon with the circle (disc) of His fame which was very white and which had spread in all directions, who was lord of the earth that had Sahyadri and Vinthyachala for her breasts, the nippic (?) being made of their tops blackened by surrounding clouds:---son of Silatlitya, who having a sdranga bow in his hand appeared as if he were Krishna himself;--- brother of the grand father of the most powcrful chakravarti Sri Dharasena the king of kings, whosc forehead bore a mark of the crescent moon being caused by the scar left by constant rubbing (of the head) with the earth before the lotus-like feet of his father, whose beautiful ears (particnlar knowledge of the 'Srudies) were pure on account of the ornaments of Vedie mantras put upon them from his very infancy, whose lotus-like palin was washed in its forc-part with water of Sankalpa for making religious gifts, who was a lover of the earth imposing very mild taxes, like an actual lover taking softly the hand of his young bride, who like the Dhanurveda incarnate bad all the targets within his ken, whose command wis placed on their heads hy princes like so many crest-jewels, and who was a great devotee of Sankara ---son of Sri Dhruvasena, who meditated on the feet of luis clder brother, wlio surpassed all his predecessors in (point of) good conduct, who in accomplishing tirings not done by others appeared as if he were a walking personification of Pureśärtha, whose mind was full of love for virtues fully ripened, who was accepted by his subjects as another Manu, who had acquired much learning, who was like the moon withont its spot all brilliant and the cause of all peace, who was like the sun, that ever shines, on his subjects, the destroyer of all darkness cvcn up to the ends of the quarters by his great. lustrc, who had the confidence of his subjects, who performed the highest deeds with a purpose, with motive to accomplish various ends and always in accordance with the Sastras, who
Ahol Shrutgyanam
