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SANJAN PLATES OF AMOGHAVARSHA I; SAKA-SAMVAT 793. 255
(possessed of heat; possessed of valour) (temporarily) ceases to be, for that length of time only do the vijihmas (the dismal ones; the crooked ones) rise.
(V. 41). Following guru and budha (the two planets of those names; elders and wise men), the lord, the sun of the Rattas, taking, again, his rise through the greatness of the rising mountain, namely, Arya Pātālamalla, and overpowering the unruly circle of tejasvins (luminaries; men of fiery spirit), again, purifies the world alone.
(V. 42). The soul is the king; the mind is his minister; the group of senses is again that circle of feudatories according to the political science; and speech, &c., are the servants conform. ing to the prescribed rules. Presiding over his place, namely, the body, he (the soul) is able to enjoy, independently, his own vishaya (kingdom; worldly objects). When that enjoyer is subject to samnipata (a kind of fever, collision), they all perish.
(V. 43). Who, having, with rage, destroyed the sedition-mongers that were so by regular succession from their own ancestors as does a medicine diseases, wind clouds, fire dry fuel, and the sun darkness, (and) having (thus) destroyed by fame as by moon-light the darkness of Kali from both the beginning and extremity of the earth, he shone by the beauty of the royal parasol, white like the moon.
(V. 44). From the mandala (feudatories) struck by whose danda (chastising rod) pearls came to his palace like fruit from a tree (struck by a stick), (and) to his palace came a host of elephants, like a herd of boars, from the forest, with mandala (temples) struck by danda (stick). With the bodies consumed by the fierce fire of whose anger the enemies were reduced to ashes; (as) others, with bodies favoured on account of their falling at his feet, attained to prosperity.
(V. 45). Whose order the alien kings incessantly place on their head as a chaplet. Whose expanse of fame is the white veil on the fow of the temples of the elephants of the quarters. Far off from whom stands the greatness of the pratapa (valour; heat) of his karas (hands, rays), though it is in him? Overpowering all the bhubhṛits (kings; mountains) with his tējas (prowess, heat) over whom is he not a very ina (king; Sun)?
(V. 46). At whose gate the lords of the hostile territories are put to trouble by relays of door-keepers, being made to sit outside, while waiting for the proper time of (his) assembly-hall, and where, when they perceive that they will not obtain back their own bevy of courtezans and group of elephants, covered with choice gems and pearls, which have gone into his possession, they droop down.
(V. 47). That son of Jimutaketa, gave away his own body in order to protect a serpent; Sibi, again, to a hawk to save a dove; (and) Dadhicha to (his) supplicator. But they, we are told, gratified each a single individual, (whereas) the illustrious Vira-Narayana presented his left finger to Maha-Lakshmi for the pacification of a calamity to the (whole) people.
(V. 48). That donor, in the Kali Age, who was of the Gupta lineage, having killed (his) brother, we are told, seized (his) kingdom and queen, (and) thereafter the wretch caused her to write down one lac, one crore (in the document). But he, who gave away more than once his own kingdom, insignificant (to him), (saying): of what account are the external objects', was bashful even when the fame (had spread) that the ornament of the exalted Rashtrakutas was the (real) donor.
(V. 49). While Amoghavarsha, whose cluster of powerful enemies are bitten by the fangs of the terrible jaw of the snake, namely, the sword in his hand, is the ruler of the earth, no (adverse) times characterised by calamities to husbandry, plagues and famines can set their foot in the Hemanta, Sisira, Vasanta, Grishma, Varsha and Sarat seasons.
