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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(V. 36.) Then king Ganapati took to wife that Narams and Pêrama, whose beauty, elegance and grace were unrivalled in the three worlds.
(V. 37.) The king welcomed and took into his service their younger brother, the handsome Jayana, who, in spite of his youth, commanded respect on account of the great modesty, wisdom, cleverness, firmness, profundity and bravery, indicated by his face.
(V. 38.) Then, pleased by (his) deeds, the king joyfully granted to this Jāyana the dignity of a general (and) of a commander of the elephant-troop, along with a palanquin, a parasol, and other emblems.
(V. 39.) Having been appointed general by his lord, surrounded by wise mon, (and) full of power, young Jaya, the slayer of hostile warriors, resembles (the god) Kumara, who has been appointed general by (Indra) the lord of the gods, is surrounded by gods, (and) bears a spear.
(V. 40.) The edge of his sword (is) the only messenger, (announcing) to powerful enemies (their approaching) union with celestial nymphs; (and) his policy (is) the messenger, (announcing) to his beloved (master) the union with the fortunes of other kings.
(V. 41.) He who was distinguished by the name Vairigðdhumagharatta, formerly became a (mere) mouthful for the point of his (vis. Jâya's) sword, that was about to devour all the brave enemies in battles.
(V. 42.) He is ashamed at the praise of (his) liberality, which meets (his) ears, (thinking), it seems :- "What are my gifts (worth), (f) a single lord of the twice-born (vis. the Moon) gets entirely emaciated in every dark) fortnight; (f) a single scholar (vis, the planet Mercury), having lost most of his wealth (or light), always approaches (another) wealthy man (viz. the San); (and if a single poet (vis, the planet Venus), being bewildered, does not rise for some days ?"
(V. 43.) He possesses offspring in the shape of the following seven (acts) which (he) has duly fulfilled :-(The procreation of) a son, the composition (of a poem), (the hoarding of) & treasure, (the planting of a grove, the marriage of a girl to a Brdhmaņa), (the consecration of) a temple, and the construction of) a tank.
(V. 44.) In this Dvipa, founded by his grandfather Narayana, this general Jaye himself caused to be built, out of true devotion, this lofty (and) substantial temple, equal to the Kailasa mountain, of Mahadeva, who has the shape of a linga (and) is called Ganapésvara after the name of king Ganapati.
(V. 45.) In the saka (year) measured by the qualities (3), the arrows (5), and the Bhavas (11), (i.e. 1153), in the cyclic) year Khara, in the bright (fortnight) of Madhava, on the tithi of Gauri,- JÄya performed the consecration of this blessed Ganapatlávara.
B.-Telugu Portion. (Line 121.) To the god Mahadeva of the Ganapatiévara (temple) at Divi the various inhabitants of the eighteen districts (vishaya) (on) both sides of the Krishna river) gave at Nangegadda (as) revenue a large fanam (chinna) on (every) boat.
116. "the grinding-stone to the wheat (which was) the enemy.' This most have been a sarname of the first of Jaya's aptagonists.
· The actual reason of Jaya's being ashamed at the praise of his liberality is, of course, his great modesty.
1 These are the seven kinds of offspring (santana or santali) to which verse 9 of the Vanapalli plates of Anna-Vêma alludes; ante, p. 64, note 8.
• See verse 21 f.
Bhava is used for 11, because it is synonymous with Rudra. Compare siva-lata - 1100, Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 202, note 48.
• This is another name of the lunar month of VaifAkha.
