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KHAJURAHO INSCRIPTION No. V.
Brahman, the indestructible, ageless, immortal, others the verily auspicious Buddha, (and) others again the spotless Vâmana, the triumphant (Jina)!
(4.) People overcome with severe distress (brought about) by violent fever (sent) by the great Indra (?) or by Vishnu, (and) those seized again and again by goblins and by evil spirits that show themselves day by day, (and) those afflicted with leprosy, which displays its fierce might by sore thumbs and fore-arms,-(all) these are freed from evil when they set eyes on thy clearly shown uncouth twisted tresses of hair.
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(5.) There was on the surface of the earth a matchless (town), decorated with lofty palaces, which is recorded to have been founded here between the golden and silver ages by some ruler of the earth, a lord of the people, who was of Brahman's race, (a town which is) read of in histories (?) (and) called Padmavati by people versed in the Puranas.
(6.) This most excellent (town) named Padmavati, built in an unprecedented manner, was crowded with lofty rows of streets of palaces, in which tall horses were curvetting: with its shining white high-topped walls, which grazed the clouds, it irradiated the sky; (and) it was full of bright palatial dwellings that resembled the peaks of the snowy mountain.
(7.) Tell us, need we praise that (town) in which the dust raised up by the pounding of the hoofs of galloping tall horses made the sky, covered (as it were) with an old worn-out cloth, look like the belly of a tortoise, while the ground in a wonderful manner was furnished with a coating of mud by the rain emitted from the cheeks of many infuriated formidable elephants? What need we say more?
(8.) In that (town) there was born. . . . . of (?) the Grahapati family undefiled, the famous illustrious Atiyaśobala, bowed down to by people who excelled by first-rate qualities; who by his own arm acquired wondrous fame; supported, like excellent trees, the families of friends and dependants; (and) threw down the forces of enemies. . ... by striking with arrows which were the glances fond of his knitted brows (?).
He who built tanks full of water, in which the lotuses shone with the loveliness of the spreading rays of the bright-lustred moon, and temples high like the peaks of the Himalaya, he, successful like Indra, was called Yasobala.
(11.) From him was born (a son) named Mâhața, who honoured the whole body of relatives, who, by (attaining) the difficult-to-be-obtained fruit of the three objects of life, in a blameless manner secured for himself happiness, (and) who indeed delighted the people by his high-mindedness which was proclaimed by tales in praise of his good fame.
(12.) His son was the illustrious Jayadeva, a performer of good deeds, whose actions were able to remove. . . . fear and dishonour from his own and from all people ...(P.).
(13.) From him, who by his loveliness was the moon, and, as regards the attainment of the objects of men's desires, a tree of paradise, there was born, as the light proceeds from the lord of the day, a son (named) Sekkala, who was learned, a sun of unparalleled majesty, famous, foremost among the good, the sole habitation of truth, liberality, and bravery, self-confident, (and) endowed with wealth.
31.e., religion, wealth, and pleasure.
