Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

Author(s): Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(L. 15.) His son (was) the Vriddharajan, the glorious Kongani, with the name Durvinita, whose three constituents of power were expanding; who made the faces of Death and Fire Confused by the remnants of oblations of animals in the shape of heroic persons who were slain and sacrificed in the offerings which were the opening of numerous battles at Andari Alattür, Porulare, Pelnagara, etc.; the author of a commentary of the fifteenth sarga (or fifteen sargas) of the Kiratarjuniya.
(L. 18.) His son (was) the Vriddharajan, the glorious Kongani, whose second name was Mushkara, whose lotus-like pair of feet was made yellowish by the mass of pollen from the garlands on the heads of the overlords of the earth which had become squeezed by the crushing of intractable foes.
(L. 19.) His son (was) the Mahadhiraja, the glorious Kongani, with the famous name, Srivikrama, whose mother was the daughter of Sindhuraja who was renowned in all quarters which rise above each other; whose mind was made pure by mastering the fourteen branches of knowledge; who was pre-eminently a good expounder and practiser of the entire science of politics; who was a rising sun for dispelling the mass of darkness which consisted of his foes; who was the five-arrowed one (Cupid) for the sole love of the foremost amongst artful and fond womanfolk.
(L. 23.) His son (was) the Mahadhiraja, the glorious Kongani, whose second name was Bhavikrama; whose broad breast was marked with the resplendent marks of victory grown from the wounds (resulting from) the blows of the hatchets which are the tusks of the elephants, manifested in the throng of numerous battles; who was endowed with the three constituents of power; who had mastered the truth of the meaning of all Sastras; who had propi. tiated the three higher castes (or, who had accomplished the three objects of life, dharma, artha and kama); whose life was without blemish; whose power was increasing from day to day. Moreover,→
The king Srivallabha by name who vanquished the king, the lord of the Pallavas in the battle called after Velanda, which was terrible with the throng of the trampling of the feet of hundreds of elephants that were furious from tasting the currents of blood that issued from the openings in the breasts of warriors who were hewn asunder with the blows of various weapons; who had obtained the manifestation of the goddess of luck by victory in hundreds
of battles.
(L. 29.) His younger brother (was) the friend of the learned, Navakāma by name, whose lotus-like feet were resplendent with the lustre of the rays of the jewels at the top of the diadems of kings who bent (before him); who was selected as her liege lord by Lakshmi herself; whose fame was sung through his splitting of his foes.
(L. 31.) He robs Lakshmi seated on the breast of Mura's foe (Vishnu); he is able to appropriate the pure fame of Rama; he makes the behaviour of Manu, that is praised by wise people, his own; he is always a blameless lover of the world, who ravishes the damsels of others like the king of the gods; O wonder, or, what is there here of wonder, could there be another result than this from the endeavours of the vise ones ?
(L. 33.) The grandson of this Maharaja, Kongani, whose other name was Ŝivamara, (was he) who had acquired the truth of the collection of all the arts; the round of the nails of whose feet was adorned with fragments of rainbows resplendent in the many jewels fixed on the surface of the crowns of all the feudatories, who bent (before him); who directed his devotion on Nārāyaṇa who is praised by the foremost of gods and demons; who showed his anger at the head of battles, terrible through the throng of heroes, horses and choice elephants; (who was