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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(V. 1.) Who could it possibly be, wore it not Taponidhi, that attained perfection 2 ai! tn , in those of (Kumārila-)Bhatta,' was himself the maker of the elixir of good maxims. Ant was (like) tho root to the sprouts of excellent practices.
V. Like muito Blavāris the consort of Bhava (Siva), was Svargā, pre-eminent in 20toties, the consort of that Tapanidhi. From her sprung a son Kārttikēga (by name), Wows to solis euergies in performing manifold acts (propitiatory) to the gods. (V.30) Ple, the foremost of śrotrigas, by whom the ocenn of the Mimārsū (philosophy)
i no" the impression of a cow's hool," came to be famous amongst men as the olym erol tho dubts about the meauing of the Smritis.
(V. 17.) Live for truth, fome diffused over the three worlds, sinless course in house-keeping, absence eť pride oven in (tric session of superior qualities, faithful roposing in the Sruti, and steady devotion towards Hari--ho, indeed, on this earth, is able to describe separately the various qualit « le prosseasel ?
(V. 18.) He obtained for his wife a lady named Kaliparvvä, who sanctified both lines (viz. both of her parents and her husband), (who was the danghter of Angada, the son of Aja-misra, the foremost of poets and sprung from the Kutumba-palli family.
(V. 19.) Like an indigent person coming by a treasure, she, the great-granddanghter of Vishnu, thongh (blessed) with other) werthy sons, was long overjoyel in having, turough 1. Kürttikiya), Prahāsa for a son, (a gon) capable of performing all the ceremonies concern
i worki ilis marks (of body), the auspicions effects of which were occasioned by ti a cenary of the planets at the time of his birth), iudicated clearly from the beginning that ie was to have a loity position in future, (to be a man of faith in the scriptures) and (to be) of generous disposition.
(V. 20.) His unsurpata kunw.dge in pic and in the Tantras and also in tho Dharmafrīstras, his truthfulness, freedoru fram avarica and other (virtues) were no matter of (incre) ealogy for him, because of their actual prete; ---Call) this was known from the popular card and the bending of the rows of heads of prominent kiugs (in obeisance) and other sach (canses). Or else, how could the statements of the good be false, (for would they not have thus) become the subjects of derision among contemporary people ?
(V. 21.) Though settling the dubious points (of law) by means of thousands of arguments, he had had his balance of justico, with its upper-parts never unsupported (i.e. always ready to weigh justice).
There is a pim in the word tapo-widhi her. One not himself a ta po- nidhi, i.e. a receptacle of an torities, caunot possibly possess the other qualities mentioned in the verse.
The cel l reputative of the Mimarisi duetrive, the author of the Tantra-rărttika, the slokapink d e Viwasi kirikis. Cf. verse 23 of the prasasti of Bhatta-Bhavadēva. (Above, Vol. VI,
námi (Parati) Day also be regarile as ta põdhika, inasmuch as she performed very severe austerities
11 as her husband, Blava (Hivat), who was himself a la puertibi. Their issue was also tamod Karihoyat itie :), L. by his wissile (sak!) did I gr service to the gods (deta-karya) by vanquishing Cavi enemy, the demon Taraks.
• Probably ofers to the old ayaton of ordeal by a balance. For the various kinds of ordeal used in deciding es-e in the wurt of law cf. aruvalky-t-smpili, IT, 95; aud for the application of the balanee-ordeal vide ibid., v 100.102.
5 Tiu word.hmmhaka is seldom found in literature in the souse in which it has been used here. The Medinikuska state one of the various meanings of this word as-dhafasy-örddkranalambene,' the upper part of a balance'; cf. Monier William Sanskrit-English Dictionary, p. 400. This word occurs in a verse quoted from Vyasa by Apararks the counmentator on Yahavolkya; cf. mrinmayau sutrs-samladdhau dhata mastaka-chumbakan fikya-dcaya sama sajjya pårfrayõr-sbhayār=apillp. 702, Yöiaealkya-ompiti, Anandhirama series.
