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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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TRANSLATION." (Verse 1.) May the Elephant-faced (Ganēša) increase the splendour of your excellent qualities: he whose playing ball in the beginning of the creation of the world was the pleasant dwelling-place of the gods, while his majesty was praised by Brahman, the water moving in the cavity of whose (Ganēśa's) navel became the garment of the earth.
(V. 2.) From Vishnu's navel Brahmi was born. His son was Marichi. His son was Kasynpa, the origin of beings. His son was Bhānu (the Sun), whose body consists of the three forins. His son was Manu, the first king. A jewel among the princes of his race was Arjuna, terrible to evil-doers.
(V. 3.) Born in the race of the glorious king Arjuna-Kärta virya, --in whose prison he (Rāvana) who had uplifted the mountain of Sthāņu (Siva) lived long, waiting his time, through the sport of the wielder of the diso (Vishnu) his realm had been conferred as a boon on the thousand armed one5-king called Choda, to whom the crests of kings bowed down, ruled with longlasting power the country between the ocean and the Vindhya.
(V. 4.) On account of the greatness of (his) fame the kinga honoured him as Māhishmaty. adhipa', on account of the sport of (his) proud arm 88 Saubhadra ', for his accomplishment as Birudankarudra', on account of (his) self-control as Atriya-gotra, on account of (his) valour as having the biruda Gandavenda', on account of (his) warriors as . Mamniya-kshmäpāļimpigi-vēntakāra.
(V.5.) To that king Choda, Mallamba bore the honoured Upondra, the origin of fame, as Aditi (bore) Upēndra (Vishnu).
(V. 6.) While he, in whose shoulder there was no small strength, bore the burden of the earth descended from his father's arms, the elephants of the quarters were unceasingly sporting with their females and Sesha was a favourite ornament in Siva's hand.
.(V. 7.) From that Upendra was born to Bimbămbikā the august prince Choda, whose foot-stool was kissed by the crest-jewels of the hostile princes, vanquished (by him) in sport.
1 Sirdalavikridita.
[In some places it bas become too literal.-Ed.]
3 Kuyapa had numerous wives and for this reason a very large and heterogeneous progeny : deities, demons, werpents, birds, reptilow, in tine, all sorts of animated beings. Henso be is called sometimes Prajapati : see Vishnupuripa, transl. by Wilson, p. 122 %.
. Trimirti is an epithet of the Sun: ef. Homadri (Bibl. Ind.) 1.611.9 ; 823:6; 23.126.11; the same senso bas trayimaya in Ruyyaka's Alankarasarousva (Kuoyamila, No. 35), p. 99. See slao Hopkins, Phe Religion of India, p. 446 %.
.I take the compound T AYTMUT: a ny ie : The verso refers to the well-known le ronds of Ravana's lifting the Kailasa on bis march to attack Indra and his capture by Arjana-Kirtavirys but the foature alluded to in the first poda does not seem to ooour in other versions of the story. The first pida sooms to imply that this (i.6. Arjuna-Kirtavirya's) realm had been conferred on him by the sport of Visbyu as boon for his one thousand arms, though he is said to have got various boons from Dattatreys.Ed.)
. Both the elephants aud a wore roloased from their dutier, for Upendra aeted as Ibaptila and Chadara.
