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(V. 7.) His broad breast was worthy of being desired by the lady Fortune; his speech was worthy of [being desired by the lady] Fortune: the lotus of his face was worthy of the love of that lady the Fortune of high Vietory; his rod-like arm, extending through the regions of space, was worthy of being desired by that lady the Fortune of Glory; thus how splendid is
Dāma !
(V. 8.) On the head of the rutting elephant of the great King of Gods, on the tusks of the elephants of the regions of space, on Hara's awful sword, on the slope of Indrakila, on the cosmic egg of the Lotus-born [Brahman], on the home of the great Serpents [Patala], on the high door-posts of Murari's house, the lady Speech has written the title: "Davala is pure, rich in great bounty."
(V. 9.) Standing in divers sports amidst the groves of creeping plants on the skirts of the great mountain of the King of the Gods, of Himalaya, and of Mount Malaya, do not the wives of the Vidyadharas and the company of ladies of... and the Serpent damsels sing in concert the splendour of Damodara's glory? hence who is able to praise (fittingly) its [greatness]?
(V. 10.) The noble tree of desire. . ., throwing out its sprouts through the child of the Sun [Karga], attained to greenness through Vikramaditya chief of monarchs,... everywhere from Harischandra, flowered through Nala, put forth green fruit through the lord Charudatta, [and ripened into perfect fruit] through Dāma... on this vast earth.
(V. 11.) Is not Dama, who makes gifts with calm delight to the company of sages even in [this] troublous time, [when] the Kali Age is rife everywhere and the quality of greed pervades ?] the whole universe.. to this world, a Dadhichi, a Sibi, a Karna, a
Gutta, a Charudatta ?
No. 38. TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM RON, OF SAKA 944 AND 1102.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT.
Ron (the word is spelt "Roan " in the Indian Atlas sheet 41) is the chief town of the Ron täluka in Dharwar District, Bombay Presidency, and lies in lat. 15° 42' and long. 75° 47'. Both the present epigraphs, which are now edited from ink-impressions bequeathed by the late Dr. Fleet to the British Museum, come from the local temple of Isvara. From notes on the ink-impressions it appears that at the time when the impressions were taken both the stones were on the outside of the temple; the introductory note to the imperfect transcript of B. in the Elliot Collection (Vol. II, fol. 93b. in the Royal Asiatic Society's copy) states that Elliot's agent found it "in the stone temple standing in front of the Reddiyavar's house in Rōp".
A-OF THE REIGN OF JAYASIMHA II: SAKA 944.
This record is imperfect; the latter part of the stone is missing, and it is moreover cracked across the middle. The inscribed area is about 2 ft. 7 in. wide, and the maximum height of what remains is about 3 ft. 1 in. There seems to be no trace of any sculptures.-The character is Kanarese lines 1-28 are written in a fair sloping hand typical of the eleventh century, with letters of an average height of in., and underneath them are portions of three more lines
[We may construe the sentence as :-tanna viéäl-õrasthalam Srikäntä-kamaniyam-adudu, tauna mukh-imbhojātam Vak-srikanta-kamaniyam-adudu tanna bhuj-ädandam udyaj-Jayadrikäntä-kamaniyam-adudu, etc., and translate it accordingly.-Ed.)
