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SURYA DYNASTY.
of the Syådvad", who always pulled down the theories of free-thinking and who was the thunderbolt to the mountains of pride of the Sugatast. The remaining portion contains the names of some persons, but these cannot be properly made out.
III.
A Stone Inscription in the Temple of Hastamdid at Udeypore in Meywar.
This inscription is to be found in one of the steps leading to the entrance of the temple of Hastamata near a garden called Champâ Big about a mile north-east of the town of Udeypore. It is much mutilated and the latter portion has been entirely destroyed, which makes it wholly impossible to decide any probable date of the inscription as well as the name of the king in whose time it must have been written. There are in it two names of the Chitore kings, one of Saktikumâra and the other of Suchi Varma, his son.
The stone in which this inscription is cut measures 3', 2' x 6' and contains six lines. The composition is in Sanskrit verses, and the character old Devanagari.
TRANSLITERATION.
१ मुररिपो रित सम्वरसूदनः पुररिपोरिव मर्हिणवाहनः । जलनिधेरिय शीतकचिः क्रमादजनि शक्तिकुमारनृपस्ततः ॥ अब्धिरिव स्थितिलंघन भीरुः कर्णईवास्थिविताणहिरण्यः । शंभुरिवारिपुरंकुतदापः (E) भीशुचिनो)......
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२ (मनोहराकृतिर साक्षान्मनो (भ) रिव को वानेन शरविभिहृदयो पीरोयवस्थांतर नो नीतो न वशीकृतो न निहतः स्वानांच न प्रादितः ॥ सत्पद्मानि विकासयन्नरितमांसयन्दिशो मास थन्दोषास्थां क्षपयन्गुणान्प्रकटय (त्रु) ......
मधु () () पिता पक्ष्यांगीकृतमप्याहो महिमतः स्फीताम्यगोत्राकरोत मण्डनमयं भारं मन्यते । कुले स तेषामभवत् परमादारिताः स्फुटसिदः । स्वयंपदमुक्तशेषं दतं धनं....
४ सूनुरजायतायसमूजः पुण्यात्मनामयणीः ॥ अपायनियामकृष्णावदा जन योगीक मनाः परं पदमिव ध्यायन्नयं तिष्टति ॥ धीरत्वं सुसहायतां सरलतां स (दृ) त्ततां सत्यतां त्वा यस्य कुलीनताञ्च सु....
The doctrine of the Jainas,
f The Buddhists.
This letter can be read was as the translation has adopted that reading.
Aho! Shrutgyanam
