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sport, as it were, to allay all fears by ensuring the safety of the inhabitants of the three worlds, which are like so many bolts to secure the seven gates of the way to hell difficult to go through, and which are like so many buds of the tree of the seven elements* watered by love.
4. After him, may the first Tirtharaja ever give joy to men-Tirtharaja who knows all that passes between the two mountains Loka and Aloka (i. e. the world), who is an open door to final beatitude, who is the (store) house of good qualities, whose lotus-like feet are worshipped by the three worlds, who is always full of merits resulting from religious duties common to all men, and who appears beautiful on account of the wide spread lustre of his beneficence.
5. Vishnu the enemy of the Daityas assumes certain incarnations which also come to an end in short time. The kings of the solar and lunar races, who can protect, lose their manliness. Who, then, will destroy the son of Diti ?-Once upon a time when Brahma was thus thinking a warrior suddenly came out of the Chuluka (water he held in his hand) while performing Sandhyd, shaking his sword with the Daityos.
6. From Chalukya, who was all full of over-flowing valour and who saved the ocean and earth, descended the fearless race of the Chalukyas. What kings of this race were not well-known by the way in which they held the whole world in surprise with their pillar-like hands ever setting about the conquest of the three worlds and yet remaining without any pride?
7. In this line of glorious fame flourished king Argorija, who like the sun. gave light by his brilliant manners to the mirror-like splendour of brave men whose bravery was of the highest kind. IIc changed the waters of the sca into black, they being formerly red by the flowing into it of the rivers of blood shed in battlefields, by mixing with it the thick soot which flowed down (with tears) from the eyes of the wives of his enemies.
8. Whose sword, with its incessant sharp falls like those of rain from a cloud, making the paintings on the forehead and breasts of the wives of his enemies a thing of the past, has spread such a brilliant lightening that its brilliancy can still be seen in the form of the eye of Siva on his forehead, of the sun, and of the Valavânala (the great fire in water.)
9. The king had for his wife Salakshpadevi, who like Rájaniti (policy of a king) is full of pure parts, and the glory of whose great virtues is immense.
10. When he (Argorija) preferred the taste of the nectar on the lips of the heavenly nymphs to the taste of the nectar of the moon-beams and of the Juice extracted from the Kalpa tree, his son Lavanaprasâda, whose cry of valour
The सप्तपदार्थाs are what are popularly included in the सप्तभंगी or स्याद्वाद.
Aho! Shrutgyanam
