Epigraphia Indica Vol 01

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
L. 11.
यावन्महीमहीधरजलनिधयो यावदिन्दुरविताराः । तावदिदमस्तु कीर्तिस्थानं श्रीचन्दगुप्तस्य ॥ [२१] HECH
शिवात्मजभट्टस्कन्दादवाप्तशुभजन्मा। Haga var afghede[w]m: [[Ra]" अश्मनीखरणागन नागदत्तस्य सूनुना। sentent AUTOT OF Taraftarferat al [Ra]"
TRANSLATION. Om.
1. Obeisance to the supreme Loril," who destroys the circle of births and assumes the three forms of Brahman, Vishnu, and Rudra for the sake of the creation, continu. ance, and dissolution of the universe !
2. Among the kings, sprung from the race of Yadu, who govern the kingdom of Singhapura since the beginning of the (Kali) Yuga, arose in the course of time) a royal sage, named the illustrious Senavarman.
3. His sou was an illustrious king with the name Aryavarman, who first after him (his father) proclaimed by his deals the fact that he kept the vow of an Arya.
4. The king, named the illustrious Dattavarman, who secured safety, riches, victory, and destruction (respeclively) to the fearful, to beggars, to his race and to his enemies, was his son.
5. His son was a great protector of the earth, called the illustrious Pradiptavarman, a blazing fire for (that) multitude of moths, the armies of his foes, who were blinded by pride.
6. His son, called the illustrious Isvara varman, became king through his great liberality, he who ruled, like Bhava, over a multitude of objects of existence (Thapa).
7. His son was he who was denominated the illustrious Vriddhivarman, a king whose good fortune was much increased, who, like the moon, removed torments and gladdened the eyes of men).
8. His son was the illustrious Singhavarman, a lion-like king who earned by the strength of his arms a reputation for bravery and whose power was seen (to be) above that of) those having dana (i.e., of merely liberal not heroic princes and of rutting elephants).
9. His son was he who is named the illustrious Jala, a prince whose peculiar action was the filling of the regions (with his fame), who removed the torments of his people, and who rained water (as it were) for (quenching) the forest-fire of the Kaliyuga.
10. His son was the king named the illustrious Yajñavarman, by whom the peacocks were ever made to cry aloud on account of the smoke-clouds (arising from the sacrificial butter.
1 L. 14. in : is not quite distinct. 13 Metre of verse 23 Annshțubb. * The deity meant ir Siva.
The moon removes the torments of the heat of the day, and the king those inflinted by wicked men.
Here we have the time-honoured pon on dana liberality' and 'the icbor of the ratting elephant.' 1i.e., who by his virtues counteracted the wickedness of the Kaliyuga, wbich on account of its destructiveness may be compared to a forest fire. The other epithets, too, have a double sense, one applicable to water, jala, and the other to the king called Jala.