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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
L. 24. रवितमयानुकारिका रंगमंडपोपि विरचितस्तस्यैव देवस्य तेनैव प्रकटित
25. नरजनुषा प्पस्नध[]षा । तदिदमवनीवनीपकविनुतधरायस्य 28. अणरायस्य । यासनमतिबलयासनतरकरदानस्य [सापदानस्थ । [३०]॥ 27..खस्ति बोविजयाभ्युदयथालिवाहनसकवर्ष १४३. संदु 48. मैले नडव पुतसंवत्सरद माघ मुरलु श्रीमन्महाराजा28. धिराजराजपरमेश्वरबीवीरप्रतापबीवीरवाणरायमहा80. रायर पाभिषेकोत्सवपुण्यकालदलु बीविरुपा81. पदेवर अमृतपडिनावे[ोके]" सिम्गिनायकनहळ्यिन स32. मर्पिसि देवर संमुखद महारंगमंटपवन पा मुंद38. ण गोपुरवन कटिसिपा मुंदण हिरिय गोपुरवन 34. जीर्बोचारवन माडिसि बीविरूपाचदेवरिग नव36. रखचितवाद सुवर्षकमशवनू गागाभरणवन 88. समर्पिसिदा [*] देवर []ध पारी[ग]णे मावदक सम87. पित" चिचद परिवार १ पारतिहलगे २ळेय 88. पारति २४ इष्टन समर्पिसिदर । यी धर्मके 39. तप्पिदवरगनु गोहत्व[*]महत्यादिमहा40. पातकगळ माजिद पापले होगलुरळवर [*]
TRANSLATION.
4. Sanskrit portion. (This is an ediot of the illustrious Krishnadevaraya.
Hail! Let there be prosperity ! (Verse 1.) Adoration to Sambhu (Siva), who is adorned, as with a chamara, with the moon that kisses his lofty head, and who is the principal pillar at the building of the city of the three worlds 135
(2.) May that lustre (Ganeba),-which dispels the darkness of obstacles, and which, though (it has the head of) an elephant (gaja), was born from the mountaindaughter (4 gajd), and is worshipped even by Hari (Vishna),- produce happiness 136
(3.) There was produced, like fresh butter, from the great ocean of milk, when it was churned by the gods, the luminary which dispels darkness (i.e., the moon).
(4.) The son of this (moon) was Budha, whose name (1008 made) true to its meaningly by his unequalled austerities. In consequence of his pious deeds (he obtained a son), Puraravas. (The son) of him, who destroyed the life (dyue) of his enemies by
- Rdयचे. • Rand समर्पिसिक
An sier reading would be T TWE N T, 'the principal pillar of support of the city of the three worlda.' Compare O frymt w, the single pillar of support of the house of the three worlds,' ante, p. 310, verse 28.
On the virodada dra between gqja and agajd, see Journal, Bombay Br. R. 41. 8., vol. XII, p. 372, note 2. There is also play on the word hari, which siguibes. Visbạn,' and at the Mme time the lion,' which is considered as the natural enemy of the elephant.
"Rudhamaane.inmaa.or.
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