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(V. 18.) Now his son Parabala rules bere the land, he who has discarded addiction to sin and is therefore like the sun which has severed its connection with the night; who is born of pure body and is versed in all arts, and is therefore like the moon when she has risen with a bright form and with all her digits; who, terrible in cutting up the forces of adversaries, is gentle-looking, and full of prowess.
(V. 24.) At the head of batilo the fortune of royalty-her garland of pearls covered with the blood streaming from the temples of elephauts that were split by the round-pointed shafts of her strong bow drawn with a twang of the string, and with rows of arrows resting on her creeper-like arms-conquered for him palidhvaju banners.
(V. 25.) He caused to be built this temple of Sauri, resembling the peak of the mountain of snow, the white flag on the bright top of which bears the lustre of the river of the gods.
(V. 26.) And like the pillar which was formerly erected?) on the mountain of Garudadhvaja(?), exactly so was this large Garuda-bannered pillar caused to be erected by that king before the temple of) Hari.!
(V. 27.) Repeatedly deliberating whether this is Vishnu's foot making three strides, or the body of Sthâņu shaped like a post, or (the serpent) Śésha pulled out of a hole in the ground by the enemy of the serpent-king, the gods on viewing it find out that it is a pillar of pure stone proclaiming the fame of king Parabala.
(V. 28.) His prime minister was (Ksh?]i..., administrator of all laws, bright like gold and true of speech, to be saluted with (bowing of) the head by king Parabala. He set up before the temple of the destroyeri of Madhu this Garuda-marked pillar, which with its stone arm raised aloft defies all ages-a pillar of him who has paralyzed his foes.
(Line 31.) The year 917, Friday, the 6th of the bright half of Chaitra.
No. 35.- ANMAKONDA INSCRIPTION OF PROLA;
The Chalakya-Vikrama year Forty-Two.
BY H. KRISHNA SASTRI, B.A. On a hillock to the south of Hanumkonda? (Anmakonda) near Warangal in the Nizam's State, stands the small temple of Padmakshi which, unlike other buildings attributable to the Kakatiya period, is devoid of any architectural pretensions. The rock close to which the temple stands, bears on a portion of its dressed surface, sculptures of
I I.e. Visbņu.
? I win not sure about the meaning of these words, the text of which is doubtful in the original. Garudadhvajadri might be equivalent to Krishnagiri.
* I.e. Siva. • These words clearly indicate that there was a figure of Garuda on the top of the pillar.
I.e. Vishņu. • In my opinion, this might refer either to the king or to the god Vishņu. T This is the form given in Mr. Cousons' Lists of Antiquarian Remains in H. H. the Nizam's Territories,
p. 46.
The thousand-pillared temple in the middle of the village of Anmakonda was built by Prðla's son Rudra in or about A.D. 1162-63 (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 9 f.) and contains some excellently sculptured door posts. The four gateways which now stand in the open air at Warangal might have belonged to the palace of the Kakatiya kings at that place (Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1901-2, p. 4). Mr. Cousens, however, thinks that the gateways must have belonged to great temple in the centre of Warangal (Lists of Antiquarian Remains in H. . the
