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SURYA DYNASTY.
117 various kinds of beneficent acts (consisting of the erection or opening) of almshouses in hard times, the installation of the foot-marks (of the Jain God), the repairs of old and (the erection of) new Jain temples at Aji-hari, Pindaravitaka, Sabra and many other places, with (his) increasing progeny consisting of Jadny, Jâvada and others, (who were) his sons by his wife Sangha-Dharalade. Lashi, Saja, Son, SAliga-the sons of Rutalde, the wife of Sangh. Ratna, his (ie. Daranka's) elder brother, (being directed) by the king Râna Sr! Kumbhakarga, the temple, founded in his (Kumbhakarna's) own name, of the first lord of the Yuga-Sri Chatur-mukha,-called Trailokya-dipaka, was, by his order and favour, built in the city of Ranapura and was consecrated by Sri Soma-sundarsuri of Sri Vrihattapâgachchhad, who was made the superintendent of Parandargachchha by the great Guru who was (as it were) the sun of the gadi of the illustrious Sri Devasundur-sori, (and) who was among the pupils of Sri Jagach-chandrasûri and Sri Devendra-suri. This is made by the architect Depâka. And may this Sri Chaturmukha-Vihara prosper till the sun and the moon (shine). May happiness attend it.
IX.
A stone inscription of Ekalingaji near Udeypore in Meywar. Dated Samvat 1545.
The inscription is placed in the temple of Ekalingaji, the tutelary god of the Sisodia kings of Meywar, at the time of its complete repairs in the reign. of Mahiran Sri Rayamalaji. It is a very long inscription containing, one hundred Sanskrit verses, and gives an account of different gifts of villages by the kings of Chitore for the maintenance of the temple. By way of eulogium it also mentions the wars with the Mussalman kings of Delhi and Gujarat in the times of Mokal, Kumbhakarna and Rayamalla. Then the writer Mahesvara gives his own genealogy and mentions his own position in the court as poet laureate. The inscription gives the date of the repairs as Samvat 1545,
A. D. 1489.
TRANSLITERATION.
॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः ॥ ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥ आनंदोद्दाममूर्त्तिस्त्रिभुवनभवनस्थित्यपायो त कीर्तिर्विध्यानुध्यातधामा निखिलसुर मरेकालोपनामा । द्रो रौद्रारिवीरकरतरुपरम्यासस्यांसमुद्री माद्यन्यायाकारः eyes angemeżent 194
दागमविदो विदां पदममंदमाचक्षते यमिन्दुकृतशेखरं हरमतीतविश्वापदं । यथामति महोदयं तमिह काव्य कलावतां प्रमथनाथमभ्यर्चये ॥२॥
मान्यतां शिवं
उत्साहं सुंदरी वो दिशतु पशुपतेर्यत्कृपापार्वणेदोः संद्योतः संचितांतस्तिमिरपर मधिश्रद्दधानं धुनोति ॥ दिव्य
Aho! Shrutgyanam
