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(and) brightened the ends of the quarters with (hin) fame which was as (white as the clouds of the autumn (sarad).
(V. 17) With the pure gold brought from all the quarters which were subdued by the prowess of his own arm, this banner of the solar race (i.e., Parāntaka) covered the mansion of Indumauli (Siva) at Vyāghrägrahāra (i.e., Chidambaram).
(V. 18) To that king, whose two feet were worshipped by all the rulers of men, were born three sons prosperous as Sutrāman (Indra) and resplendent as the three fires, the (one) called Rājaditya in this world, (another) named the glorious Gandarāditya (and the third) Ariñjaya, the valorous, whose name was famous throughout the world.
(V. 19) When king Parāntaka, who was pre-eminent in destroying the armies of (his) enemies (and) who was a follower of dharma, had gone to heaven after having protected the earth girdled by the ocean, there was) his son known as Rājāditya, who was strong, (and) whose two feet were rubbed by the crests of hosts of kings : he became the lord of the earth.
(V. 20) That heroic Rājāditya, the ornament of the solar race having agitated in battle, the imperturbable Krishnarāja along with his army, with his sharp arrows falling in all directions, while (seated) on the back of an excellant elephant, had his heart split by the thrusts of his (i.e. Krishnarāja's) sharp arrows and mounting a celestial car went to the world of heroes (viraloka) praised by the three worlds.
(V. 21) When Rājāditya (or the sun among kings) of great prowess (or splendour) had gone to give pleasure to the lotus-faces of heavenly damsels, his heroic brother of wide-spread fame, (named) Gançarādityavarmman, protected the whole earth dispelling the dense darkness, (viz.) all (his) enemies.
(V. 22) Having got a son named Madhurāntaka and (having founded) a big village after his own name in the country on the north bank of the river) Kavērakanyā (ie. Kāvēri), he (Gandarāditya) went to heaven for achieving the objects of (that) other world.
(V. 23) When that lord had gone to heaven, the heroic Ariñjaya, a very conflagration in (consuming) the forest of enemy kings, ruled the whole earth.
(V. 24) From Ariñjaya was born Parāntaka, (who was) equal (in prowess) to the destroyer of the three) cities (i.e. Siva), (who was) the crusher of the circle of enemy kings, (and) who, (causing his) subjects to be pleased by his good qualities, peacefully ruled the earth girdled by the ocean.
(V. 25) At the city named Chēvūra, he (Parantaka) had the quarters filled with heaps of sharp and pointed arrows sent forth from his beautiful bow and caused to flow manifold rivers of blood springing from the high mountains, i.e. the enemies' elephants cut asunder by (his) sharp sword.
(V. 26) This lord of kings (rājēndra) begot two sons), Aditya, otherwise called Karikala and Rājarāja, the head-jewel of the solar race.
(V. 27) When that Parantaka directed his attention to protect the world of gods (i.e., died). Aditya justly carried out the protection of the world of men.
(V. 28) That young boy (Aditya), the light of the family of Manu, played sportively in battle with Vira-Pāņdya, just as a lion's cub (does) with a rutting mad elephant proud of its) strength.
(V. 29) When that chief of kings went to heaven, the son of Gandarāditya, (.e.) king Madhurāntaka, he, of powerful arms and famous as Mahendra (Indra), protected the earth which had the ocean for its girdle.
(V. 30) When that chief of the rulers of the earth passed away to protect the abode of the gode, the heroic Rajaraja, the light of the Chola race, whose footstool was licked (i.e. rubbed)
