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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(Verse 5) From this terrestrial moon of kings was born the beauteous Chandrika, bathing the world's soul with showers of the delightful nectar of the moon;
(Verse 6) Dwelling in the lotus of whose face, Fortune thinks not of the natural) lotuslake. Having a constant home in (Chandrika's) modest lotus-eyes, she has no longing for Krishna; but, as she ombraces her limbs in delight, she takes no thought of the gods: thus she (Chandrika) becomes as it were a prison-house to enslave the glances of the whole world.
(Verse 7) Her husband Paramardin, an ornament of the Haihaya lineage, having a body of pative strength, skilled in warfare, transcends the Lord of the Stars.
(Verse 8) There is this province of Utkala, where the five friends of the god of the five arrows-the eye and the others--appear fulfilled of desire in their several) series of objects.
(Verse 9) And there (lies) the holy place (called) Ekāmra, tenanted by hundreds of mango groves, a single home of the god [Siva], crowded with families of gods miraculous.
(Verse 10) This is where dwells the Lord of the Mountain's Daughter, who established in the form of the river Gandhavati' in the vicinity a stream furnishing a true fount for the company of the gods (and) fortuno enabling the valiant Choda-Ganga, in intense love for whose descendants Krittivāsas founded it, to win to the throne of Mahendra ;
(Verse 11) Where is the Bindu-saras (lake), incomparable ocean, with streams worthy to be drunk by the sight, removing the weariness of travellers As it falls, its body welling forth from nectarous sources; these holy places do not attain the divine rank of even a drop thereof ? (The place is) distinctly one created in grace to (his) creatures by the Conqueror of the Cities [śiva), uniquely removing the sorrow of the world.
(Verse 12) See, an old turtle swimming within it is taken by damsels ... swinging and standing on its back, and made into a pleasure-boat by them, who when it dives in dive in after it here; at their monkey-like aquatic antics the crowd in front, trembling on the bank, spring up and are thrown into consternation.
(Verse 13) On the bank of this ornament of holy places, which is thick-set with various woods, sanctified by the residence of the blessed Kfishịa and the blessed Baladova, forming a very Nandana,
(Verse 14) Here, when there had elapsed from the epoch of the) saka king years measured by the dimensions "sky, sky, snake king's tongues, moon", when Narasingadēva's son king Bhānu had long been reigning over this land as far as the sea, that daughter of Bhima constructed for Hari a temple lasting as long as sun and moon.
(Verse 15) Into the temple, which by the stately display of firm golden capitals upon lofty spires suggests the primal spheres whence arose the universe, and is a fitting essence of Brahman, those two parts of Hari as he lies in the great ocean (Kfishna and Bala-dēva] have entered.
(Verse 16) This temple), brilliant with a thick-set forest of decorations consisting of the two deities (the Sun and Moon), has assumed the nature of a sportive diadem in order to surpass him whoso crest-jewel is the moon [Siva), and has laughed to roorn the Sun.
1 Chandrika means "moonlight" ? I.. the five organs of sense ; popularly they are called "enemios" (rips, etc.). * See Antiquities of Orima, vol. 2, pp. 65, 98.
This title of siva properly means "clad in skins"; for another derivation of it in the corrupt form Kirttįrata) seo Antiquities of Orista, vol 2, PP. 66, 70, 76, 89.
See ibid., pp. 68 f.
