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(V. 24.) Who is not highly pleased with the territories of Mummaḍindra, whose gardens are flourishing with long stretches of ripe plantains, limes, jack and mango trees bordering on all sides, enclosing in the interior everywhere groups of beautiful areca-palms, betel-creepers and ginger plants, with avenues of tall cocoanut palms and the sweet-flowered vakula, kuravaka, asōka, and punnaga trees ?
(V. 25.) Kāpaya-nayaka, the famous Suratrana (i.e. Sultan) of the Andhra country gave (in marriage) his sister's daughter to king Mummaḍindra.
(V. 26.) Mummaḍindra ever rules the earth, looking after (the interests of) groups of the twice-born (Brahmanas), who, like the highly brilliant pearls, please the whole world and shed continuous lustre by their upright conduct (or roundness), good qualities (or strong thread) and purity, decorating by their residence the (many) (agrahara) villages given by the king, provided with all comforts and shining as if they were valuable necklaces of the (goddess) earth.
(V. 27.) King Mummaḍi resides joyfully in the big, beautiful and advanced city named Korukonda, in which shine fair ladies who stand on a par with Rati, in which dwell the utmost number of wealthy men, which is the abode of all prosperity, which is attractive on account of (its men of) learning and which is beautiful with its bazars.
(V. 28.) What to say of the fortune of this city! For here dwells the Supreme Being (Vishnu) with (the goddess) Śri (Lakshmi), giving up (his) heavenly abode.
(V. 29.) One younger brother (of Mummaḍi-nayaka) is Singaya-nayaka, who ranks high on account of all good qualities (and) great fortune; and another younger brother is Gannaya-nayaka who shines verily like the principal gem in the necklace (or group) of kings.
(V. 30.) These two prosperous brothers named king Singa and king Ganna are comparable only with that Mummaḍindra.
(V. 31.) Having appointed these brothers respectively at Kōti-puri in which are crores of prosperous and beautiful ladies, and at Taḍipaka which is the very fruit of the meritorious acts (of its residents), (Mummaḍindra) rules the earth along with them.
(V. 32.) King Singa follows in the footsteps of (his) elder brother king Mummaḍi, just as Hari (followed) his elder brother Sakra (Indra), and Saumitri (i.e. Lakshmana) (followed) his elder brother Rama.
(V. 33.) King Singa's capital is known as the famous city (of) Mummaḍividu. (Thus) associated with the name of Mummaḍi-nayaka, it ., (is) the play-ground for the (goddess of) wealth, the sporting-house for (the goddess of) learning, and the ornament of the earth, near which flows the prosperous (river) Pampa and close to which is (the temple of) the glorious (god) Ramanathosvara.
(V. 34.) That spacious city shines like the capital of heaven reflected in the holy (and) placid waters of the (river) Pampa, the country on either side of which is hemmed in with thick forests.
(V. 35.) King Singa residing in that famous city protects the entire earth, being possessed of all (kinds of) wealth.
(V. 36.) Victorious is the king Singa, who is a Ganda-gopala in discomfiting his powerful enemies and to whose lady-fame (this mundane) egg of Brahma is (only) a ball.1
1 His fame was evidently of such extraordinary dimensions that the universe comparatively looked like a handy ball. In other words, his fame easily occupied the whole universe [played with the earth as with a ball.F. W. T.]
