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disciplines, it is not visited by disasters; though it is frequented by many persons of culture, it displays splendour of possessions undissipated in contemplation.
Here :-(Verne 59)-The sage Marichi, offspring of the Lotus-born (Brahman), had a son, by name Kasyapa the Patriarch, the sole cause of the creation of the whole world, highest of the high.
(Verse 60)-Many scions of his illustrious race flourished, receptacles of true knowledge, stainless of fame, praised by all Brāhmaṇs, moons in the encircling firmament of their family.
Among them :-(Verse 61)-There flourished on earth the doctor Rövana, sanctified in the gotra of Kaśyapa, one by whom the power of evil perished, controller of the whole earth, stainless of conduct, unfailing in religious observances.
(Verse 62)— There flourished a son of this noble Brahmap, by name Sankarărye, having his famo spread over the earth, a home of the whole series of virtuos, his soul devoted to the lotus-feet of Him [Siva] who destroyed the Mind-born [Káma).
(Verse 63)--This lord, being inspired of spirit, exalted in virtue, having paid worship by sastere observances to the lotus-feet of the god] Isvara of Koppa through his desire for a 800, obtained as a boon from that god a son who was a darling to the soul and eyes of Lady Fortune, the excellent Koppadēva.
(Verse 64)--He attained a high reputation throughout the world, of the following tenor on his birth the produce of the field of virtue fally flowered, ripened, and bore fruit, and caused delight to all men.
Moreover :-(Verse 65)--A seat of the virtue of goodness, a dwelling-place of noble conduct, a bank for the diffusion of brilliant glory, a mine for the jewel of holy conduct, a seed for the growth of unwavering eloquence, a field of birth for greatness, thus Koppana in very truth was a lustrous jewel-mirror for the face of the Lady of Speech
(Verse 66)-Having earned the approbation of king Jayasimha [II] by his unique purity under test, he obtained by the favour of the latter the distinguished office of administrator of the stores of his inexhaustible treasury.
(Verse 67)- His good wife, who was of noble race, and was endowed with accomplishments and possessed the virtues of stainless conduct, & very Sitā in her devotion to her husband, Pampakabbe, attained greatness.
(Verse 68)-Of this couple an eldest son flourished, a possessor of brilliant virtues, a hot bee to the lotus-feet of Mura's Slayer (Vishọa), endowed with radiant white fame, Vávaņārya.
(Verse 69)-This ornament of the Brahman race, tasting the oblations and funereal offerings of the series of gods and ancestors (respectively] always until the sun set, was entirely devoted to sacrificing for his congregation.
(Verse 70)-His younger brother was the virtuous sankarirya, a sest of all knowledge ; his younger brother, Rēvanabhatta, who understood the purport of all traditional lore and was good and stainless of soul, was famous in the world.
(Verse 71)-His younger brother was Māchayabhatta, possessed of virtue, who had crossed to the further shore of the ocean of the blessed Vedas, who cast away passion, who was renowned over the earth, who had fame brilliant as the moon.
1 The point of this verse lies in a virodhábhasa, with verbal opposition between dakshina: uttara, sandana : asat-kujäta (kujata. base-born" and "tree"), siti : aniti (" without disaster" and "lawlesanem," according as it is divided as an-iti or a-xiti), visita : apinita.
For the word adarpu cf. the Sabara-farkara-vilasa, 1, 84.
