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SOLANKI DYNASTY, ..
p raca: LithATi (fa). 83................. GARUT TO ATTE .............. ..........
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TRANSLATION. 1. May Someśvara bless you, who is like a Kalpa tree in the Kali-yuga, who is like the moon to the ocean of the excess of happiness consisting of supreme bliss, wbo is the sole cause of immortality: by whose volition the three worlds awake and sleep and who is the rasdijano (elixir) to (preserve) the body of the moon.
2. May the rays of the nails of the reddish fingers, effulgent with high lustre and beauty, of the feet of Višvesvara, appearing as if tossing about the beauty of a line of moons rising to destroy the deep darkness of the miseries of the world, destroy the whole of your delusion of his world.
3. O, mother Sarasvati! adorn this face of mine which is beautiful like a full-blown lotus, as long as I describe the Upanishad of the life of Ganda, the lord of the universe, which destroys all sins.
4-5. The Trident-holder (Pinakapigi=Saykara) seeing that religion was disappearing under bad kings in this Kaliyuga, thought of reincarnating a part of himself as was arranged with thic desire of repairing his abode, and took birth for the welfare of the world in the house of the best of Bråhmanas in the beautiful country of Kanya Kubja, who had destroyed his sins by offering oblations to the three sacred fires, and whose sorrows were onded by the reflection of the Vedic texts or by the Vedanta.
6-7. This Brahmanil, who was descended from Sri Visvanatha, who was a treilsure of Tapas (austerities), who when it child bad mastered the fourteen Vidyds without teaching by virtue of the residua of former births, and who was a disciple of the devotees in the Mathia (Monastry) of the god Mabakaladeva, went to Avanti to practise religious austeritics.
8. This Brahmana, passed any days or rather years in meditating hard, with his eyes closed a little, on his identity with the supreme imperishable principle which is the cause of the Gunas in the form of the world, and which is eternal bliss.
9. Then from the hostile king-like milky ocenn which was agitated when being churned by mount Mandarachala * . * became second Chanda. Which of the numcrous lotus-like faces of the wives of kings in his army did not bear the beauty of full-blown. lituses when he was shining day and night.
Ahol Shrutgyanam
