Epigraphia Indica Vol 03

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. III.
22 suverņņasya kraya-dânád=grihitäni ttrinsan-[n "Jivarttanknil kshettr[åņi] Śrávaņa
masê amâvâsyayam sarva-gråsê sûryys23 grahanê 2 matapittro[ho] pany-Abhivriddhaye atmanaḥ eri(éré)y[-rttham cha]
Acharya-prasanga-dêvakarmmik-kvarttan-Ôpaya-nimittam dêvasya 24 pája-samskåraya [cha] svakiy-Ayatanê 3 dattani rakshitavyani ...
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TRANSLATION. Om! Om! Reverence to Siva! Victorions, victorious, be that union of the god) Hara and the goddess) Gauri, in which the face and breasts (of the goddess) are passionately kissed by the left arm (of the god); in which the fingers (of the god) separate themselves among the corled tresses (of the goddess) that imitate the quivering movements of a swarm of black bees; (and) which resembles in beauty a fully expanded white water-lily (i.e, the god), enhanced by the sweetness of a yellow water-lily (i.e. the goddess) brought to maturity by the rays of the sun!.
(Line 4.)- Possessed of a mind that was free from the contaminations of the Kali age; like a very Raghu promoting the increase of the race of the Chalukyas ; ever delighting in charity, like (Karna) the son of the Sun; characterised by impetuosity, like Vrikodara, (ouch was) the glorious and blameless and generous Vijayaditya-Satyasraya, the favourite of fortune and of the earth, the Mahardjadhiraja, the Paramétvara, the Bhaffáraka. By him there was erected a great stone temple of the god) the holy Vijayêsvara-bhattaraka. On the south of this:
(L. 7.)- The son, the dear (or favourite son, of the glorious Vijayadityadêve, (was) the illustrious unrepulsed one, to whose feet obeisance was done by all feudatory chiefs, the bruiser of the town of Kanchi, the glorious Vikramaditya-(II.)-Satyasraya, 'the favourite of fortune and of the earth, the Maharajadhirdja, the Paramésvara, the Bhaffaraka. His dear (or favourite) queen-consort, born in the race of the Haihayas, (was) one who, like the divine (goddess) Umå, was a very mother of mankind. By her there was erected a great stone temple of the god) the holy Lökêsvara-bhattaraka. On the north of this:
(L. 11.)- Of (her) the glorious Lókamahidevi, the uterine younger sister, - a dear (or favourite) queen of the glorious Vikramadityadêva; (and) the mother of,- Hail !- Kirti
1 The Nagari version (lino 26) has trimían-ni".
From mást to súryya, both included, the passage is illegible in the version in local characters. In the Nagari version (line 26), the next word after kahettr[di] is dehdrya-prasanga : the date, and part of the following context, were omitted in their proper place, and were inserted, with the exception of bréyo-rtthan cha, which was left out altogether, in four short lines that stand near the bottom of the south-east face, which had been left blank between the ends of the line of the version in local characters and the beginnings of the lines of the Nigari version; and, fortunately, that part of the date which is obliterated in the version in local characters, is distinctly legible in the Nagari version,
This locative seems rather upcouth. But it occurs again, in precisely the same phrase, in the other Nagarf inscription on the east fuce of the square part of the pillar.
• See page 4 above, note 3.
See page 4 above, note 12.
• The literal translation may perhaps be " there was set up (the god) the holy Vijayésvara-bhattarska in (or of) a great stone temple." But the inscription seems really to seek to record the building of the temple, not merely the setting up of an image of the god. The same note applies to the two temples mentioned further on.
7 The context is- "Thus, in the middle of these three) shrines," in line 16.
. Her name, Lokamabadevt, wbich bere is only indicated by the word Ika-mdtd, mother of mankind,' is given in the next sentence.
Note 7 above applies here.