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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(V. 1.) Valorous like a lion, he with his unsheathed sharp sword split open the frontal globos! of the lordly elephants- his adversaries; the fire of his wrath is not extinguished anless it is sprinkled with the tears of the sorrow-stricken wives of his enemies.
His dear son was the asylum of all mankind, the Maharaja Vishnuvardhana (1. 10).
(V. 2.) When he ascends his elephant, his enemies ascend the mountain-tops; when his arm takes the sword, the hands of the young women of his adversaries take up the chowries; when he knits his brows, the black bees make honey in the palace of his adversary; when the war-drum is sounded in his ubode, the jackals howl in the abode of his opponent.
His dear son-whos excels the moon in beauty, the earth in endurance, the tree of paradise in generosity, the sun in splendoor, the lion in bravery, and the sen in greatness of disposition- the asylum of the wbole world, the Maharaja Vijayaditya (1. 17), thus issues a command to all the cultivators, headed by the Ráshfrakúfas, in the Gudravåra-vishaya
"Be it known to you! On the occasion of an eclipse of the moon (1. 27), the village of Tranda[pa Pru (1. 28) has been given by Us, with exemption from all taxes, to the Taittiriya householder Vinayadisarman (1. 27), & Bon of Damodarasarman and son's son of the inhabitant of Urputuru (1. 19), the .. ... Tarkasarman, who belongs to the Kaubika gôtra and Åpastamba nútra.
(V. 4.) He has conquered the host of the six enemies of mankind who have subdued all the world; when she came to him, the Glory of holiness forgot even the lotus-born Brahman; in his society the assemblage of virtues find pleasure, such as they have nowhere experienced ; true to his word, he in jest even does not give utterance to false speech.
(V.5.) When on the field of battle, strewn with horses, soldiers and infuriated elephants that were strack down by various weapons, (the king) had slain Mangi, who had defeated the whole host of hostile chiefs and in the excess of his fury had ridiculed the king's liberality, bravery and power, he was well pleased with the marvellous advice of this best one of the twiceborn."
The boundaries aro (1.28): On the east and south, Angaloru; on the west, Velperu; and on the north, Chavi[ta?]paru.
The rest of the inscription warns the people not to obstruct this grant; quotes three benedictive and imprecatory verses, Ascribed to Vy&sa; (in verse 9) gives the name of the Ajitapti of the grant, Pandaringa, who for his prowess and valour in war is compared to Btbhatsz, 1.6. Arjada; (in v. 10) contains a prayer for the welfare of the people and the progress of religion ; and (in v. 11) records that this edict (idsana), by order of the king Vijayaditya, was written by the foremost of goldsmiths, Katta[y]a, the son of Madhava and son's son of Isana.
1 There is no doubt that tbio wwe present to the mind of the author of the verse; compere, dosedad, p. 102, hari-kharanakhara-oidaritakumbhasthala-pikala-odrane According to Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant. Vol. XX, D. 101, the word adgddhipa would seem to have a double meaning, and to indicata alao a defent of some hostile cbiel of the Ndgaa."
The presence of the black been in the palace of the enemy as well u the howling of the jackals portend evil, Compare Harlacharita, Bombay od.pp. 180 and 181, vandrin findindirdjaya .. .. badhramo bardmarad pafalam.
I only give the general sense of verso 3, which I cannot construe. The king wus mald-affus on soooon of bis noble disposition; the sea is so, because it contains a number of big creatures.
• Here one word, apparently a game, is partly illegible in the original.
Compare South-Ind. Inaer. Vol. I. p. 36, note 3. 6 The original ha: Panktruhadla'; compare, 9., Ambajadhana and Jalajabhava la Ind. ant. Vol. XIL p. 92, 1. 40, and p. 98, 1. 46.
According to the dictionaries, the word jdaha, in classical Sanskrit, would seem to be used only w an adverb, in the form daham, but it occurs mes sabatantive, in the sense of whe, ..g. in Harekaoharita, Bombay od.. p. 169, 1. 8.
Tbio bas necessarily to be supplied; the king, of course, in Vijayaditya himself
