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GOVINDPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE POET GANGADHARA.
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(V.22.) After him came another son, named Mahidhara. These were the two sons of Manoratha. To Dasaratha, on the other hand, were born Harihara and Purushottama, blessing and fulfilment of desire.
(28.) Fond of the Vedas, devoted to the proper ceremonial, illustrious for their knowledge of the Sikahás, well acquainted with the Jyotisha, accurately understanding the Nirukta, proficient in the rules of metrics, famous for their progress in grammar, these six brothers, deeply engaged in the lofty course of study of the learned, well represent the Vedangas in the world.
(24.) Meanwhile there was born that moon of the Mâna princes, the king Rudramâna, who, like the primeval boar, powerfully recovered his realm from the sea of adversaries.
(25.) As his hand is famed for its liberality and his face a wave of the flood of light, and since he keeps himself within the bounds of propriety, and provides means of subsistence for the people," of what account are the creeping-plant of paradise, the great serpent and the tortoise, those two bright luminaries yonder, and the lord of elephants and the seas? Fie on such cumbrous insignia of high rank of the Creator!
(26.) Marvellous indeed is his fame, because it shares the properties of the supreme lord. So subtle as to pervade the edges of the teeth of the elephants of the quarters, so light as to reach the heavens in its ascent of the mountains, it extends everywhere here in the broad regions and roams freely about at will; it predominates in the sea of milk as well as in the white splendour of the moon, and it goes out of the mundane egg, and stays in it as it pleases.
(27.) Of this (king) Gangadhara was (as it were) a second heart to protect friends, (Gangadhara), who always was in battle a magician (in scattering) the lines of exulting hostile warriors, in misfortune an honest friend, a check when affairs were getting beyond control, an excellent associate in a spotless assembly, and worthy to be trusted in everything.
(28.) (Gangadhara), who was embellished by good behaviour, famed for his cleverness of speech, a market of the gems of prudent counsel, a lover of resoluteness, tranquil-minded, full of compassion, a store-house of benevolence, fraudless in obligations, a prime promoter of friendship, boundless in steadfastness, free from the failing of untruth, and a treasure of intelligence.
(29.) He married the charming Påsaladevi, a daughter of Jayapâni who bore the title of adhikarika, a friend of the king of Gauda, and of (his wife) Subhaga.
(80.) And their matrimonial union was universally esteemed even as that of Siva and his consort, who are prevented from seeing the charm of each other's faces, because they bave only one body; a union where the wife is never left behind when (the husband) mounts the bull to go abroad, and where (the wife) never notices the (husband's) fearful form, nor minds being addressed with the name of a rival.
(31.) The people here have witnessed the conduct of (Gangadhara) whose mind is brimful of contentment, honesty, firmness, forbearance, self-restraint, tenderness, calmness, patience, friendship, truth and contemplation, whose only thought is Narayana,
Here, again, the two first lines of the original verse do not admit of a proper construction. 5.e., a superintendent of affairs."
