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all his enemies, and because his brilliant fame, as if it were his big shining mane, spread at once in all quarters.
Having perceived that his club-like right arm, even while he was a child, was taken possession of by the Fortune of heroism, who had given up all idea of occupying any other resting-place, the Fortune of royalty, proudly desirous of asserting her superiority, when he was older, determined on embracing his whole body, turning away with disdain from all other men.
Useless indeed is yonder sun, so long as this sun of a king disperses the thick darkness of exceedingly haughty adversaries, and eclipses the stars of the badly. conducted, and illumines all round the wide expanse of this whole earth, and uninterruptedly touches with his fierce rays of supremacy, which spread to the confines of the regions, mountain-like princes.
At his conquest of the quarters, the dust which rose from the orb of the earth, crumbling to pieces under the sharp hoofs of his choice chargers, spread over the chief towns of his adversaries, and, enveloping all things, foretold as it were the time of the universal destruction.
To this noble prince belongs the town named Chadobha, the lustre of which spreads on all sides, the excellent markets and the thriving trade of which are celebrated by the people that come to it from all quarters to traffic in things which they have got or wish to acquire.”
The historical information contained in these verses is this: In the Kachchhapag håta family there was
1. Yuvarája. His son was2. Arjuna, who, as an ally or feudatory of Vidyadharadeva, slew in battle
Rajyapala. His son was3. Abhimanyu, whose valorous bearing was eulogized by the king Bhoja.
His son was4. Vijaya påla; and his son again5. Vikramasimha, for whom the inscription (in line 61) furnishes the date
Monday, the third of the bright half of the month Bhadrapada of the year 1145, corresponding, as I have shewn in Indian Antiquary, vol. XIX, p. 361(No. 170), to the Northern Vikrama year 1145 expired, or to Monday.
the 21st August, A. D. 1088.5 Of the Kachchhapagbåta family we possess two other inscriptions of about the same time and from the same part of India. One is the large Gwalior Sasbahu temple inscription of the Vikrama year 1150, which gives us the line of princes Lakshmaņa, Vajrada man, Mangalaraja, Kirtiraja, Maladeva, Devapala, Padma pala, and Mahipala. And the other is the Narwar copper-plate inscription of Vir as imhad eva of the Vikrama year 1177, which mentions, as the immediate predecessor of Virasimha. deva, Saradasin hadeva, and as his predecessor, Gaganasimhadeva. As these two inscriptions contain totally different names, and as none of the names occurring in either agree with the names furnished by the present inscription, it is clear that the three
→ The date is one of those in which the tithi is joined with the week-lay on which it commenced. . See Indian Antiquary, vol. XV, p. 35.
See Journal, Am. Or. Soc., vol. VI, p. 513, and Sir A. Cunningham's Archæol. Survey of India, vol. II, p. 313.
