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SANJAN PLATES OF AMOGHAVARSHA I; SAKA-SAMVAT 793. 253
(V. 18). By whom when the ungrateful Ganga was disaffected in consequence of fleeing away from the fine ordered by him, that villain, who had been freed from fetters on the feet, had (now) fetters put round his neck.
(V. 19). Who was the illustrious Mandhātri, another viceroy of the Creator, in as much as he with his lotus-like feet touched by the makara-shaped crowns of the lords of the earth, exerted himself to protect the earth, which had as the essence of (her) royalty the line of the Rashtrakūtas, which was charming in consequence of beautiful women, and towns and villages that were delightful, extensive and possessed of gardens, and which had for (her) girdle the ocean resounding clearly with (its) expansive waters.
(V. 20). Who, deafening the intervals between all the quarters with the noise of the deepsounding drums, the sound of which was as loud as that of a new cloud, and with (his) dhakkas, kāhalas, and the loud turyas sounding shrill, is death to the busy time of the enemies of Tribhuvana-dhavala.
(V. 21). Who, moreover, being an unbearable store of lustre, was the Sun himself gone into the Uttar-ayana (the north; the northern part of the elliptic), bringing his pāda (feet; rays) to stretch on the murdhans (heads; tops) of bhubhrits (kings; mountains), being of auspicious rise, covering the intervals between all the quarters with his lustre, getting at every step increase of pratapa (valour; heat), having an anurakta (devoted; red) mandala (feudatories; disc) and being padmakar-änandita (gladdened by the hand of the goddess of sovereignty; gladdening the assemblage of lotuses).
(V. 22). Carrying away in battles the fair and unshakable fame of kings Nagabhața and Chandragupta, he, intent upon the acquisition of fame, uprooted, like sali corn, other kings, in their own dominions, who had become destitute of all fortitude, and afterwards re-instated them in their own places.
(V. 23). The water of the springs of the Himalaya mountains was drunk by whose horses and plunged into by whose elephants, the thunder was redoubled in (its) caverns by the türya musical instruments of (whose) ablutions, (and) to whom, the great one, those (kings) Dharma and Chakrayudha surrendered of themselves. He thus bore resemblance to the fame of Himalaya, and was consequently Kirti-Nārāyaṇa.
(V. 24). Who returned from there, (thinking) that it was now the work of the ministerial servants, and following again the bank of the Narmada as if (following his own) prowess, and acquiring the Malava country along with the Kōsala, the Kalinga, the Vanga,' the Dahala, and the Oḍraka, that Vikrama himself made his servants enjoy them.
(V. 25). Making (his) enemies submissive, he returned to the remaining (part of the) Røvă, and established himself in a capital befitting (him), at the foot of the Vindhyas, performing pious deeds by constructing temples, which are stores of spiritual merit.
(V. 26). While the Mahārāja Sarva, lord of a small kingdom, was his own, a son was born to him who was to be Mahārāja-Sarva, lord of the earth.
(V. 27). At the time of whose birth it was foretold by astrologers that "being irresistible he would enjoy the earth bounded by the Himalayas and the Satu, and girdled by the ocean;
(V. 28). "Of the warriors, (his) enemies, those that were bound down in battle by Amōgha. varsha would be released, but, if disaffected, there would be release from fetters only by being reduced to ashes."
(V. 29). Then he was Prabhutavarsha, as he satisfied the desires of those that were his own. He was Jgaattunga, being at the head of bhubhṛits (kings), just as Meru is jagattunga (lofty on earth) being at the head of bhibhrits (mountains).
1 [I would put Vegi (or Vemg) instead. See f. n. 29 on p. 245 above.--Ed.]
