Epigraphia Indica Vol 02

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

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JABALPUR COPPER-PLATE OF YASAHKARNADEVA.
L. 20.
[a] #: n(1) यस्था[व]रण[यदात्ता]नृत्यलहरीद्रवलिगोदावरी
[aufg7]HTETICHÈ: Riaal: wafa: (n)* — [23]. कुर्खयहीं वा(बा) णसा
fruafara(a)tu: [*] T(ET) (T)TÅTT: wutafuttefa - [24]. स च परमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेख(ख)रथीवामदेवपा
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TRANSLATION.
Om !
Oṁ! Adoration to Brahman! (Verse 1.) Glorious is (the god) whose navel is a lotus, glorious is the lotus which is his navel, (and) glorious is (the god) born from that lotus! Glorious also is his offspring Atri, and glorious is the friend of the ocean who took his birth from Atri's eye! 37
(2.) Now the king who is the swan in the lake of the expanse of heaven begat as his offspring Bodhana, the son of (that) primeval king (and) son-in-law in the house of the friend of lotuses.
(.) This son of the god who is the elixir produced from the seven seas obtained, as the son of his own body, Purûravas, who had both Urvast and the earth here for his faithful wives, to be enjoyed by him with their hundreds of unrivalled blessings.
(4.) In this family forsooth was born Bharata, whose pure fame is proclaimed by the Yamuna, hemmed in by more than hundred posts of horse-sacrifices offered by hims),-Bharata, who delighted in the welfare of the earth, made lovely, as by a pearl-ornament, by the girdle of the seven seas.
(5.) Highly glorious is in his family that Kartavirya who, though he had no need of them, wielded with ease every weapon, (and) who allowed the title of king only to the Moon, the ancestor of the family of these Haihaya princes.
(6.) Resembling the Himalaya, the lord of mountains, that lord of princes begat the Kalachuri race which is purified by rulers of spotless conduct, as with pure round pearls.
(7.) In this family was a prince, foremost of the prudent, who purified the town of Tripuri so that it was like Indra's city,-Yuvarajadeva, who destroyed the lords of princes blinded by passion, as a young lion does powerful infuriated elephants.
(8.) The chief ministers of that ruler of the earth placed on the throne his son Kokalla, a lion-like prince, the progress of whose armies, comprising elephants, chariots, horsemen and soldiers on foot," was checked (only) by their encountering the masses of waves of the four oceans.
» Metre, Sardalavikridita. » Metre, Sloka (Anushtabh).
*This first verse glorifies the god Vishnu, bio navel, the god Brahman, Atri, and the Moon. Further on we are told that the Moon's son Bodhana (or Badba, ie., Mercury) married (Ilå or IDA) a daughter of the Sun (or Mitra-Varupa), and that their son was Purtrava. The friend of the ocean' is the moon; "the friend of lotuses,' the sun.
..., the moon. » 1.o., again the moon, under the name of Soma confounded with the Soma plant.
• For the same idon, compare ante, vol. I, p. 313, verse 16. Dr. F. E. Hall's reading chakrame in the Kumbbi copper-plate (instead of chakshame) yields no sense.
The original bas only the word chaturanga.