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and who destroys deceit, malice, folly, covetousness, selfishness, envy, fraud, infatuation, hatred, jealousy and other evil qualities.
(V.32.) Having accomplished here a thousand times, ever since he was a boy and a youth, and even to the endangerment of his life, most difficult deeds without end for the due advancement of his master, he has indeed filled the minds of his kinsmen with wonder.
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(33.) A man who in his Advaitasata has striven to prove that he has some poetic gift, whose knowledge, be it faultless or perhaps otherwise, of the treatises on the supreme soul is well known, and whose attempts in the way of artificial poetry, hard even for the goddess of eloquence and to be ventured on by scholars only, have met with applause, need he say more in praise of his merits?
(34.) The revolution of elementary matter gives rise to the diffused mass of trees, palaces, houses, and the rest of visible objects; the rain-cloud forms in the sky of its own accord; all this stays for a moment only and vanishes again, never to return." Considering such too to be the case with the three worlds, (Gangadhara) has devoted himself to virtuous and pious deeds.
(35.) To secure for his parents religious merit, that pure-minded man has founded here, covering the world for ever with their fame as with a radiant umbrella,-this tank of water shining like quick-silver, in which their spotless renown in the guise of the waves dances about in visible form.
(36.) And at the festive inauguration of this lake he has made his own fame here envelop the world like a radiant garment.
(37.) As long as the supreme spirit in the shape of the three worlds, as ether, air, fire, water and earth, passing through a succession of existences, pursues its varied course, so long may these two eulogies of fame, pleasing the eyes and ears and the mind, vigorously cause lively joy in the hearts of the good!
(38.) How can the ways of poets be easily found in the absence of innate ability as well as of culture? And, accordingly, is it likely that the author of this should have discovered them? Yet, as this treats of himself, the favour shown to him by good men will find in this eulogy also something to applaud in Gangadhara's words.87
(39.) In the Saka year equal to the Nandas (9), the organs of sense (5), the sky (0) and the moon (1), the excellent stone-mason Sulapâni, the son of Rudra and grandson of Uddharana, himself engraved this eulogy.
THE SAKA YEAR 1059.
Instead of the Abl. case apunarbhardt I should have expected the Dat. case. Literally will bestow on this eulogy also the excellence of Gangadhara's words."
