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No. 25.] TALEGAON COPPER-PLATES OF KRISHNA-RAJA I; SAKA 690.
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34 na bhämi-harttä na sudhyati (19*] Svad ttäin para-datta[rn] vā yo
harita vasundharām shashtim varsba-sahasrāņi vishţā. 35 (sam j]yatö kri(krimiḥ [ 23* ] Riņa-hartta bhomi-harttā harayitä сha to
ttrayah norakā[n] na nivarttanto yāvad=ābhn. 36 [ta]samp[la]vam [21*] Yash sampadbhir=anu]ddhataḥ parahita-vyäsaṁgini
yanya dhib ynstar v=apy=npakartom=ichchhati su 37 [hșid-vargasya kasbtha dhano [1] tin-Endrīņa narondra-vsinda-sahita-sri]
Kțishnarāj-ajñaya [prity=idam 38 lijkh[i]tam tud-annata-yasah-[prodbhā, sa[aam šī sanam 1 [22]
TRANSLATION. (V. 1) May he protect you from whose navel the lotus grows that Vodhas (Brahman) has made his abode, and Hara (Siva) through the lovely digit of whose moon the sky is embellished.
(V.2) There was a king Govindarāja (I), who with his raised scimitar destroyed the darkness in the shape of) his foes, facing them in the nights of battles, his fame reaching the ends of the quarters, brilliant like the moon (who dispels the darkness, after his disk has risen, shining against it at night), his lustre reaching to the ends of the quarters, Rajasimha (king-lion) among kings.
(V. 3) His son, whose great fame was renowned in the world; who possessed the valour and strength of Hari, the remover of the sufferings of the distressed; a king resembling the lord of heaven (Indra); full of gratefulness, became a jewel of his race, the illustrious Kakkarāja.
(V. 4) He had a son, whose broad shoulders were bright throngh being scratched by the stroke of the tasks of elephants from whose opea temples ichur trickled down; a king who on earth destroyed his enemics; who was as it were a golden mountain (Mēru) in the (linenge of the) excellent Rashtrakūtas (or, whose summit was the excellent kingdom), Indrarāja (II).
(V.5) He who had accumulated tapas, had a son who enjoyed the earth girt with the four Oceans; who was like to Indra, the Rajan, the glorious Dantidurga;
(V. 6) In the battle against whom his foes (as if they were) clephants became terrified of him, the lion amongst kings (Rajasimha), eradicated tho (sense of) shame before him (as elephants would their posts, rad away and are not known any where;
(V. 7) He who forcibly, with a few soldiers, conquered the endless forces of Karnataka, which were invincible to others, and which were skilled in effecting defeats on the lord of Kanchi, the king of Kerala, the Chola, the Pandya, Sriharsha and Vajrata;
(V. 8) He who, without knitting his brow, without seizing sharp weapons, without (letting anybody) know, without issuing orders, without effort suddenly conquered Vallabha with his assaulting force, and thus) obtained the position of a king of kings, a supreme lord.
(V. 9) After he, the Vallabharaja, had gone to heaven, Krishnaraja [1], the son of Kakkarāja, who did not oppress his subjects, became the lord of the earth.
. (V. 10) The career of that glorious Krishnarāja, who through the valour of his own arms expelled the whole enemy world, was resplendent (akrishna) like that of Krishna.
1 Metre: Anushtabh.
Metre : Sürdülavikridita. . Restored from the Säinangad plates of Dantidurga, Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, pp. 110 ff., with some corrections.
