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KALAS INSCRIPTION OF GOVINDA IV SAKA 851.
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(Verse 13)--Having acquired the favour of the sovereign, performed a great sacrifice, and satisfied a multitude of cultured men with savoary food, (and) being [distinguished) as a man of supreme culture in his race, Visõttara-bhatta . . an ocean of virtues, a potent brilliant priceless ruby-frontlet of the Brāhman race, made a tank.
(Line 18)-The above-mentioned Somayajins Rēvadisa and Visöttara :
(Lines 18-22)-Hail! He who is devoted to the performance of every holy rite ; & Vira. Nārāyaṇa; who has the monarchs of the broad earth coming to the refuge contained in the adamant cbamber of his arm; a mass of the fresh rays of politio consideration (); raining showers of brilliant gold,' an abounding stream of the nectar of discourse ; maintained by numerous great designs employed in the varieties of policy, by wit, by prudence, by discernment, and by intelligence; a lotus on earth; a hero of heroes ; & sun of heroes; who is exalted with a banner (bearing the device) of the Lord of Birds (Garuda); whose matarigas ride on fiery plephants; a master of arts among the Rattas ; a Ganges-bearer (Siva) in wrath and grace ; (ta wit) the blest Gojjiga-vallabha,
(Lines 22-24)-on Sunday, the fall-moon day of M&gha, of the oyolio year Vikfita which was the 851st Saka year, under the constellation Aslöshā, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, after offering his own weight (in gold) as largesse, on that date, after bestowing gifts of land, gifts of wishing-trees, gifts of food (and) gifts of medicines, did thereupon perform arghya to the Generals the Somayājing Rēvadāsa and Visõttara, (and grant them) Ereyana Kadiyur, saying that it was to be universally respected. . .
(Verse 14)-An ornament to the realm of Bharata is the land of Kuntala ; an embellishment of that province is the Purikara two-six-hundred district, a new diamond mirror.
(Verse 15)-Within this country of Puligere appears a heap of Fortune, an illustrious great city active in displaying the residence of deities, the splendid (town of) Puligere,
(Line 26)-On the western side of this town Purikara :
(Verse 16)-There appears in radiance, displaying itself ta the eyes of longing beholders, Broyana-Kadiyür, which, possessing a multitude of new parks extending along in its outer domain (and) splendid great tanks, is made beantiful by eager bees murmuring, by trumpetflowers whereof blooming masses gracefully spread themselves, (and) by breathing zephyrs of the South,
(Verse 17)-As, when the flocks of parrots, congregating in the manga-trees which branch out in dense growth and cast dark shades, strike with their beaks the clusters of fruit perfect in fragrance and full of juioes, (these juices) ooze out in a drizzle and bathe the plant-tips (below), the bushes of creeping-plants in Ereyana-Kadiyur and the betel-plants there are brilliantly resplendent.
(Verse 18)-The swans that soak themselves as they plunge in dives into the . stream , . . Tho gleaming water-dropa on (their) wings appear like heavy rain in the grove of Kädiyar,
(Verse 19)-Because Ereya, possessed of goodness too great to be described properly), .. .. by enclosing the place) made (his) habitation there), Kādiyūr has come to be always known generally by the name of "Ereyana-Kādiyur". Who understand how to extol (fittingly) the Brahman estate [agrahāra), which is so famous as to be called the choicest spot of the world P
This is an allusion to Govinda IV having the title Suvarnsvarsba. * See Dr. Fleet's paper on the Soraţür inscription, above, vol. XIII, p. 178.
* I take vyapara-kpitan as an inverted bahn-orini (Pāņini II. ii. 37), but it might be construed as "cause by the activity."
