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dead ancestors) forgetting in sport to distinguish the one from the other min about to pick up the particles of black collyrium washed out of the eyes of beautiful women bathing in it.
69. What is Lankả the fortress protected by the sca, and what is even Alaka, surrounded by large numbers of the birds that have lost their pride in the rainy-season, when compared with one that, with great honour, bears on itself the Kshirasagara, which is difficult of access to other Rajahamsas (kings and swans), which is an ornament of the earth, and which occupies a large extent of land;—such is Chitrakåta the Victorious.
70. Bhagavati Bhavani wlio is the source of good-fortune, who lives with her husband, and who is like a preceptor to women faithful to their husbands, keeps herself waking in this mountain; so docs the god (Sarkara) the compound for whose dance is made fragrant with the particles of honey falling from the numerous flowers of the Santâna trec (?) offered by all the women in heaven.
71. The deer-eyed women, wo bathe in the fine water that has taken of the great fragrance when Bhavani took a bath to make herself comfortable on sweating at once with a great deal of overflowing devotion towards the actions of Sankara who is always prayed to by gods that he might order them to do some service, are equal to her (Bhavani) in respect of fidelity as well as devotion to their lord.
72. Mount Kaildsa is shown to be incapable of bearing the dancc, from the time it was removed from its original position with the hands of Råvaņa; 80 Sarkara, the companion of Sri Gauri, lives now on the prosperous land of this mountain which looks naturally fine.
73. The King having created to him a palace (temple) each of whose stone is full of all artistic beauty, and which is as it were a mirror for the face of the quarters, appointed, delighted and liberal as he is, the proper village of Dhanpur whose revenues are sufficient to dcfary all the expenses incidental to the worship (of the god).
74. King Mokala established the god in the year 1485 after the time of Vikramarka on Thursday the 3rd of the Krishna paksha (dark-half) of the sacred month Fälguna, when the sun was in Capricornus, Jupiter was in Aquarius, and the nakshatra was Uttara Falguni.
75. May the band of king Mokala, the wealthiest, protect the earth as long as Indra who 19 praised by the wives of gods, while going to attend sacrifices or marching for battles, rules over the city of the gods, and as long as the thousand heads of Sesha Någa are ia existence to bear the earth on them one after another.
Ahol Shrutgyanam
