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61 vasundharām sa vishthāyām krimir-bhätvä pitsibhiḥ saha pachyats || [194]
Iti kamala-dal-amva(mbu)-vindu-lolam friya62 -m=anuchintya manushya-jivita cha | sakalam=idam=udahfitam cba va(ba)
ddhvi na hi parashaiḥ para-kirttayo vilopyāḥ || [20] Jita63 -nikhila-kshitipālab frimad-Vallalasēns-bhopala) ÖVisu-säsano-krita ditam
Harighosha-sandhivigrahikain [210] 64 Sam 11 Vaisakha-dinē 16 fri ni | Mahasām Karana ni ||
TRANSLATION. Om ! Om ! adoration to śiva.
V. l. May Arddhanirievara (a form of Sive, half male, half female), in (one) half of whose body, by the trembling caused by the movement of beautiful limbs, and in the other) half by the force of the beginning of the dance, which was extraordinary as well as terrible, the double labour of acting is successful (or victorious), bestow prosperity on you, making the ocean of delight to overflow by the waves of sound of the Nandi (s preliminary song of blessing) arising at the beginning of the evening dance of Siva (tandava).
V. 2. He, the crest-jewel of Siva (Srikantha), the god (who is the beloved of night (tamivallabha), is prosperous : on whose rise the receptacle of water (ocean) becomes restless on acoount of increased joy, the god of love (Smara) becomes a hero in the three worlds, multitudes of white water-lilies beconie sleepless, the deer-eyed ones (ladies) forsake salking, there is a rejoicing on account of plenty throughout the city of Chaköra birds.
V. 3. In his rising family were born princes (rajaputtrah), ornamenting the Radha country, illustrious on account of excessive practice of good behaviour (sadachara), with a dignity not felt or seen before, whose principal aim was to grant protection to the universe constantly, who had flooded the sky by the waves of their white fame.
V. 4. In their family was born the truthful (and) mighty Samanta sēna, who was a guile: less receptacle of pity, who was like the illustrious mountain (Himalaya) in making his friends, who were devoted to him for ever, realise the objects of their realms of fancy, who was the moon for the festive blossoming of the water-lilies, i.e. those dear to him, whose royal dignity was made radiant by bis fame, which was like moon-light, (and) who was like the Sun at the end of the Kalpas (1.6. at the time of the delage) to the ocean of troops of his enemies.
V. 5. From him was born Eēmanta-sõna-Déva who was a bee to the lotus-feet of him with the bull-standard (Siva, whose vdhana, or emblem, was the bull), whose qualities were his ornaments, (and) who was like the destructive winter to his pond-like enomios:
V. 6. The masses of whose beautiful fame, which had travelled up to the confines of Indra's garden, were seen by the creator of the Universe (Visva-dhatri) proudly as the line of geese, whioh by its movement had made his own realm radiant; by Sankara, with fear, as the returning (and therefore) overflowing stream of the Ganges; (and) by Madhava, with belief (1.e. trust or assurance), as the moving ocean of milk attracted by love for his daughter) Lakshmi.
V. 7. From him was born the lord of Earth called Vijaya-Bons, who was the overlord of all other kings, who had outshone Sabasinka (Vikramaditya) by his deceitless prowess, whose fame was song in the cities of the protecting deities of the cardinal points (Dikpalas).
V.8. Torn and scattered on the earth from the necklaces belonging to the deer-eyed onesia womenkind) of whose (Vijaya-səna's) enemies, as they (the women) wandered in the middle of the forest, the Pulindas, longing to embrace olosely the breasts of their beautiful women ornamented with garlands of gutija beads, were carefully collecting the pearls (taking the pearls
1 This mountain is supposed to contain all sorts of precious things opon which people come unexpectedly.
At the time of the deluge twelve rung rise and dry up the mass of water,
