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No. 38.)
TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM RON : SAKA 944 AND 1102.
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24 syyan)-atyunupamar-int-ivar-kramade tandeya madida bhümi-danaman [ll 8*]
Parirakshisi vipra-kalēbara-bhānu-ga25 [bhasti nūra)-nālvargg-atyādaradinde samarppisidar-paripālisim-endu chandra
tära[m]-baregam Ol 9*] Slökam [1*] Sva-dattām 26 [para-dattam và yö harjēta Vasundharāṁ shashtiruvvarsha-sahasräņi vishthāyām
jāyatē krimih (118) [10*] Akarasya karam(ri)27 [karanamh gö-sahasra-vadhaḥ smpi]taḥ | kara-pravritti-vichchhēdād-go-köți-phalam
abnutë (l) [11*] Kandan | Nettane shan-masam mugi- 28 [vy vy vy vy yy yy yyyy yyyy ) kat[t]-al-en[d]um
Ravikiya-bhattam Nirgudiyan-uņņa neleyan-tinnam! (ID [12*]'
TRANSLATION
(Lines 1-3.) While the victorious reign of–hail the refuge of the whole world, darling of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, supreme Master, ornament of Satyagraya's race, embellishment of the Chāļukyas, king Jagadēkamalla, was advancing in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) for as long as moon, sun, and stars :
(Verse 1.) More excellent than the Dvärāvati of Lady Fortune's lover [Krishna) or than the Amaravati of Indra, a pearl-necklace for the Lady Earth, the blest Rona is conspicuous on earth.
(V. 2.) The great Brāhmaṇic fief so named-in it are men perfect" (?) in the conduct (prescribed) by Manu among the scions of the race of the Lotus-born [Brahman): one of this company, a man of peerless charities excelling in that illustrious good family, kindly to cultured men, a god of givers (of bounty), is Aytavarma in supreme truth: in such terms does the world land that most eminent of sages.
(V. 3.) To him, who was renowned among good men, there was a son, the blest Sankimayya, whose conduct was uniquely praised by the people of the world, who dispelled the mass of sin, famed on the earth.
(V. 4.) With the circle of earth lauding (his) eminence, this Sankimayya constructed & Müla-sthāna sanctuary such as to be conspicuous for magnificence in Roņa ; for this who are there that do not praise (him)?
(V. 5.) He, exalted of fame, had an elder brother, the stately Māchimayya, worldrenowned, stainless in religion ; his younger brother, named the blest Chandimayya, is known as having dispelled the flood of sin. Of the two, this blest Machimayya with great generosity granted to the company of Brāhmaṇs the land for a magnificent rest-house.
(V. 6.) He kept his body in righteousness, his wealth in noble charity, truth in speech, devotion fittingly towards his father, an eager spirit ever towards Mrida's lotus-feet, passion ever for the good Law: verily, O brother, how can I (worthily) extol the righteous man bearing the name of the blest Machimayya !
(Ll. 14-20.) As regards the manner thereof :-On Monday, the 14th of the dark fortnight of Pushya, in the cyclic year Dundubhi, the 944th year of the Saka (era), at the uttardyana-sankranti, having made & rest-house for twelve Brāhmans, and having come and made into an honorary estate for the god with immunity from all conflicting claims a corn-field The stone contains portions of three more lines, possibly by a later hand, on which so above (p 223).
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