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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XVIII.
TRANSLATION.
(Verse 1: identical with verse 1 of inscription B. above.)
(V. 2.) There was a Ganadhara of the blessed Vira, named Sudharman, who had cast away...... and again in this Yāpaniya-Sangha, which is beautiful in its conduct, -
(V. 3.) In the Gana known as that of Kandor there were formerly many great saints ...... there was the great saint Bahubali, a lion .. .
(V. 4.) Victorious be Subhachandradava, a sun to the lotus-park of the Kandür. Gana... to the terrible tridarda..renowned among sages.
(V. 5.) As the circling earth extols him as a moon to the ocean of the famous Kapdür-Gaņa in the renowned Yāpaniya-Sangha, the great and holy saint Maunidēva rose to eminence.
(V. 6.) I adore that lord of ascetics the blest Maghanandin, a Garuda to the dreadful serpent Kamari, whose fame is attended by bowing monarchs, and who was a full-moon to the ocean of the principles of doctrine.
(LI. 6-7.) When the victorious reign of-hail!-the asylum of the whole world, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyasraya's race, embellishment of the Chaļukyas, king Tribhuvanamalladēva, was advancing in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) as long as moon, sun, and stars :
(V. 7.) As his splendour shines radiantly over all the earth, his authority dances upon [the heads ?] of Chöļa kings, his power in truth as it were bears fruit equally with the Tree of Desire for the world, and he, being born in the Kali age... in the company of Raghu's Bon and other monarchs ... king Vikramiditya.
(V. 8.) How doth the land of Kuntala, even as one looks, fascinate the mind by its semblance of a lock of curls on the head) of that lady the ocean-encompassed Earth! ... is resplendent after the manner of golden flowers. Pali, when one looks, is in its graceful aspect like a conspicuous string of... threaded pearls.
(L. 10.) Moreover,
(V. 9.) Puli, when one observes, appears as an emperor of towns in its gracefal aspect, with golden pinnacles, with bright temples, with comely public women ... with Brahmaps so stately that the ... Vodas seem to be incarnate in them.
(L. 11.) Moreover, as regards the eminence of the local Brāhmans :
(V. 10.). The blessed god Krishna, who is a basis . having abundantly caused his thousand names to take bodily form, and richly stowed a multitude of syllables of the Vodas, together with the Syllable [Om], and of vital spells, in the great town of Pali..... thus the Thousand Care eminent] on earth,
(v. 11.) Dignity transcending coluparison, virtue, generosity, spirit, enterprise, prayer and oblation, minor disciplines, high exaltation, truth, parity ....... by possession of teaching-books, the Thousand, having the grace of boons from the lotus-feet of the blest god Kolavāditya, are thus eminent on earth.
(V. 12: mostly illegible.)
(Ll. 15-17.) Hail!. As regards the .. of him who is an impassioned bee] to the Lord Jina's lotus-feet which are beaten by the crests of the radiant diadems of. ceaselessly
1 The trida da are the sins of body, speech, and mind.
* Votally Kämäri means "the foe of Käma," pis. Siva; but the context suggests bere the meaning that enemy Kima." (Beef. n. 6 on page 202-Ed.]
. The icon seen to be that the Thousand of Poli are incarnations of the 1,000 Dames of Krishna or Viahp
