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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(Verse 3).-From the eye-lotus of Atri was born the god" (who is) the ornament of the beloved husband of the daughter of the lord of mountains. From him (sprang] this race which)...... has shone with its bright fame, as if (decorated) with pearls.
(4).-In it there were born, of pleasing conduct, the [Chandratreya) princes, who by their powerful massive arms have crushed the hosts of enemies.
(5).- Among them appeared the lord of the earth Madanavarman, who with his flashing sword scattered (his) adversaries (and) whose vigour became known by his onslaught on hostile kings, elated with pride; (resembling) the great Indra who cut off the wings of the mountains with his thunderbolt (and) whose might became famous by his killing the demon) Vala.
(6).-The wives of his enemies,-standing sighing in their palaces, addressing in pitiful terms their favourite parrots, looking, their sight dimmed by streams of tears, at the young ones of their pet antelopes,—what did they not do when, afraid of him, they were about to depart for the forest, (and) when their minds had no hope ever to return ?
(7).-In battle his sword, applied by him to the broad frontal globes, covered with red lead, of the elephants of adversaries, (and) darkened by the bees (which stuck to it), was by his enemies seen moving rapidly to their own destruction, like Råhu, coming in contact with the newly risen) sun.
(8).- As the moon, the crest-jewel of Maheśvara, (arose) from the ocean, so was born from him Yasovarman, who was an ornament of great rulers, causing joy to the people.
(9).-Whose fame, spreading in the three worlds with the loveliness of the jasmine and the moon, made the hair (of men) appear white, and thus caused the unprecedented notion that people, before they had attained to old age, had, alas! turned grey.
(10).-From him has sprung Paramardideva whose foot-stool is pale-red with the lustre of the crest-jewels of kings bowing down (before him, and) who crushes the pride in their arms of crowds of antagonists, filled with no mean conceit.
(11.)--How could one even mention mutual conflict in the reign of this (king), who has brought about the union of both fortune and eloquence in his own person) ?
(12).When he marched out to conquer the regions, the clouds of dust raised by the hoofs of his horses, suffering from intense heat as it were because they had devoured the rays of the sun, swallowed the water of the sea.
(13).--Although the fire of his prowess spreads, unchecked, over the habitations of his rivals, there bave yet on all sides sprung up in abundance tender blades of grass dark-green like emeralds.
(14).--Now there is, well known in the three worlds, the family of Vasishtha, the unique receptacle of good acts, in which were born sages of pure conduct, as heaps of pearls (are found) in the ocean.
(15).-Among these, there was in the course of time Lakshmidhara, a swan sporting in the lake of all sciences, who ornamented the lotus-feet of the husband of Siva; an ocean of the pearls of good qualities rivalling the brilliantly shining san.
(16).-The lines of smoke of whose bright sacrificial fires, with their numerous clearly visible undulating lines, assumed the beautiful appearance of braids of hair (put) playfully on the big breasts of the women of the quarters.
ico, the moon, born on the head by Birs, the husband of Parvall. # The bee had sat before on the temples of the elephants. # The demon who is supposed to noiss the sun and the moon and thus to our eclipse.
