Epigraphia Indica Vol 01

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

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RASHTRAKUTA GRANT OF KRISHNA II.
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9. His son was the illustrious mahardja Shanda, who was very brave, a mine" of all virtues, proud and powerful. He quickly dispersed, surrounded and burnt the kings, like thorns, conquered by the strength of his arm his own kingdom which had fallen off, and made the earth subject to one (royal ) parasol.
10. In the jail of this sovereign, people incessantly heard the harsh clinking of the chains which were attached to the tender feet of the wives of his enemies.
11. From this famous (prince) there sprang this present) king called Subha. tunga, the same whom people praise in song by his other name Akalavarsha.
12. His deeds resemble those of Kộishņa; for, having killed his foes, he bears the kingdom for the welfare of the four) castes and the earth with his arm, like Křishņa.
13. Through his favour great fortune came to the race of Brahmavaka; (this fortune ) is incessantly and openly proclaimed by the great poets of later times.
14. From this ocean-like race there arose the illustrious... Kumbadi, and from him the illustrious Degadi, the destroyer of the pride of his enemies; the eternal fame which he, alone (but) without fear, obtained by destroying the elephants of many princes, pervaded the battle-fields, as that of a lion does the forests.
15. As the sun from Kayapa, there sprang from him the fierce and illustrious Rajahaṁsa, whose far-reaching and hard hands (or hot rays ) overcame all kings (or mountains) and who was rising daily; he who, like Partha (Arjuna), knew how to destroy his foes, led fickle fortune, who was wandering somewhere else, again to his own beautiful temple of Sambhu ( Siva ).
16. Like Hanumat) the son of the wind, there was born the illustrious Dhaval. appa, who conquered all his enemies, whose name was well-known, and who whitened the world with his fame.
17. Becoming (as it were) a lion and being desirous of fame, he quickly killed the enemy and restored to his master the province, which (this unnamed enemy) had taken.
18. From him came Prachanda, who was eager for fame in war, and the spotless Akkuva, who is renowned on earth by his sword.
19. Sella-Vidyadhara also, whose hands were as graceful as the selu (plant), adorned his race with fame by killing his enemies in battle.
20. The illustrious Vallabharaja Akalavarsha possesses seven hundred and fifty villages, which are designated by their chief-town) Sri-Harshapura.
(Line 31.) He informs all who shall come to this village) :gracious princes, great Vassals, ministers, commanders of the army, heads of districts and great men,
(L. 33.) "Be it known to you that, while in these seven hundred and fifty (villages) of Sri-Khețaka, Harshapura, and Kasadraha, the illustrious Chandragupta was the dandanayaka of the mahdsámanta Prachanda, who has obtained the five mahababdas, I gave as a donation the village of Vyaghrása, which is included in the ten (villages) of
* On account of the metre, dkára is used for Akara. # This verse allades to the real naine of the king, vis. Krishna.
Literally: "throngh the power of his feet." # The meaning of the second half of this verse seems to be, that Rajabarna dedicated the booty of his warlike expeditions to a temple of Siva which he himself had built.
This person seems to have been brother of Prachanda and Akkuva.