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INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF BHOJAVARMAN.
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ministration of the street (pratolt) was pleasing; who, keeping down wickedness, full of energy, always dwelt happily in the fort.
(V. 14.) His charming son again was Sobhana, endowed with good fortune, who, resplendent with many excellent qualities, adorned the quarters with his wondrous exploits.
(15.) And his son, a store of knowledge (and) in appearance like the Vidyadharas, was Vidana. Having entrusted the realm to bim, the king indeed enjoyed lasting comfort.
(16.) He had a son, distinguished for excellent qualities, who, one may say, was called Vage, because the minds of the people as well as that of king Trailokyavarman were about to prove submissive to him.
(17.) Esteeming him competent for the work, the king appointed him to the office of Vilisha over the fort, named Jaya; and gave him the well-known village of Varbhavari, to be his for ever.
(18.) There that ornament of the Vastavya race, being aware that life is brief and desirous of securing eternal life, made his transient body build a beautiful temple and a charming tank, full of good water.
(19.) (And there the wise Våseka, being to the armies of opposing chiefs what & forest-fire is to the brush-wood, sent the irresistible Bhojáka, who, seized with the frenzy of war, was rending the kingdom in two, in battle to the abode of death, and thus made Trailok yavarman again the ornament of princely families.
(20.) Having rendered the kingdom free from thorns and prosperous, so that every place was inhabited by crowds of virtuous people, and having made it resplendent with his generosity and properly secured all frontiers," he took his abode, humbling the pride of Indra's home, on the mountain Jayapura, which, turned into a pleasant street (pratoli), was like Kailasa as a place of residence.
(21.) His younger brother, of pure fame (and) famous the earth over, was the emi. nent Ananda, whom men declare to have been rightly so named " because he always gladdened people, (even) from afar.
(22.) Esteeming him a man who knew no fear, the king made him governor of the fort; (and as such) he reduced to submission the wild tribes of Bhillas, Sabaras, and Pulindas.
(28.) His son was that Ruchira, resplendent with all the sciences and arts, who, when he roamed about on the battle-fields, with ease crippled the fierce crowds of opponents.
(24.) In the fort of Jaya he reverently worshipped with folded hands the holy Durga, glorifying in strains of praise the fierce destructress of powerful demons.
(25.) Distinguished for excellent qualities, only engaged in good deeds, destroying wickedness (and) setting store only on good men, versed in sciences and in the knowledge of arms, (and) proficient in arts, he always shone, endowed with good fame.
Literally, the body wbich has not the attribute of (eternity).'
w In the original the construction is altogether ungrammatical, but there can be no doubt about the meaning of the verte.
- Here, again, the first half of the verse does not admit of a proper construction, and I can do no more than give the general mense which I think to have been intended by thu writer.
# Ananda memnus joy.'
