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SOLANKI DYNASTY.
189
TRANSLATION.
1. Bow to Siva. May Sapkara the beloved of Bhavani protect you, who when thus addressed by his consort with anger. "Because I allow the presence of Ganga in your Jata, you O cheat! cause her to play on your ears and by degrees you have brought her into your lap," said oh! best of women! this the fame of Guru Ganda, is only as an ornament of my eyebrows.
2. May Vighnarija (i. e. Ganapati) be victorious, I bow to you; may you Sarasvati favour me with the power of fresh diction that my tongue may flow on -as long as I work at the eulogy of the virtues of the good Gayda
3. May the moon be vietorious, who has been purified by Sankara, the consumer of the body of Kâmadeva; and who at the command of that God who bears lfer (the moon) on his crest having herself propagated this creed, gave it to the intelligent followers of the Pasupata doctrine who had disappeared in the Satyuga by the curse of Pârvati.
When some part of the Kaliyuga had elapsed Sankara seeing the temple in a delapidated state ordered Napdisvara to repair it.
5. The omniscient Nandisvara took birth by the order of Siva in the house of the best of Brahmayas in the city of Variasi in the beautiful country of KɅnyakubja where the gods reside and which is famous for its being the abode of Dharma (religion) and Moksha (final emencipation) and observed the vow of Pasupati.
6. He the treasure of penances, set out to make pilgrimages, to intiate kings and to protect the places (of Pasupati).
7. Bhava Brihaspati, who was very learned, who was worshipped by the whole world, who had attained the title of being the Upamana (model, standard) of those who make various pilgrimages, whose body was like Nakulisa, who was worshipped by ascetics, who was like Kamadeva, and who was as it were all the Sitras put together elucidating his own Agama,--he who was such went to Dharapuri.
8. The intellect of Bhava Brihaspati appears most brilliant in all the three worlds by the austerities he performed in the countries of Maiva and Kanyakubja, and at Ujena, by his making the Paramars his disciples and well preserving the Mathas and by his acquiring the brotherly regard of Jayasimhadevaraja much pleased with him.
9. The day on which Bhava Brihaspati, the holy-minded, being reminded by Sambhu of the reason of his taking birth in this world, thought of repairing the temple, Siddharkja gave him the greatest honour as a preceptor with folded hands and performed his service with great devotion.
Aho! Shrutgyanam
