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(V. 15.) He, though) possessed of equanimity, bore love towards worthy persons, was attached to holy places, followed the path approved by good people (and) was devoted to Siva......
(V. 16.) Purushasiva, the best of men, who was conversant with........was his disciple
(V. 17.) On account of whom there arose as much abundance-great with prosperity-in religious merit, wealth and enjoyment of Yaśaḥkarņa as that of (Indra), the lord of immortals, through Bțihaspati.
(V. 18.) His disciple, Śaktiśiva,........(who augmented) the (two) royal powers of the illus, trious king Gayakarna, made the circle of regions very bright with the mass of his fame as he did the ocean of learning with the excellence of his intellect.
(V. 19.) ..........the prowess of the king Gayakarna ...... the hostile king forcibly....
(V. 20.) The deeds of him, who is pre-eminently counted among good people and wbose wealth is an ornament of his good heart, are sung by wise men like those of the celestial wish-fulfilling tree.
(V. 21.) The disciple of bim-a marvellous tree entwined by the creeping plant of noble fame -(was) Kirtiśiva......
(V. 22.) He caused the prosperity of the king Narasimha....
(V. 23) (Unlike Siva) he had not the eartb for bis chariot, nor the sun and the moon for its wheels, nor Brahma for his charioteer, nor Vishņu for his arrow. Still he reduced to ashes the cities of the enemies (as Siva did those of the demons). Hence he (was) clearly Kirtisiva (Siva in glory).
(V. 24.) He filled all regions with his glory which he wrested from the enemy and which was as bright as the moon, as with the flowers of discrimination.
(V. 25.) Though he had burned the feeling of love in his glances, though his face resembled the bright moon, though he was firmly attached to religion and was devoted to Siva' (even as Siva burned the god of love by his glance, has a bright disc of the moon on his forehead, is mounted on the bull and is attached to Pārvati), he was (unlike Siva who is called Ugrat and wears serpents) peitber dreadful in appearance nor attended by backbiters.
(V. 26.) The great lights..........the Kalachuri family. ..................As he, so all bis sense-organs were the celestial tree of rest to the goddess of fortune.
. (V. 27.) In the götra of Viśvāmitra which is the friend of the world, how many Brāhmanas, adorned with benevolence and other (virtues), have not attained the pre-eminence of Parantēshthin (God) ?
(V. 28.) Their........with great regard for the understanding of the contents of the Vēdas which they had studied in the right manner............ Though they were vagrant mendicants, their sacrificial rites and charitable works were performed with abundance of wealth and in a praiseworthy manner like those of kings.
1 For the equipment of Siva in his fight with the demons of the three cities, see Mahabharata, Dronaparvan, adhyaya 202, vv. 71-78 (Chitrabalā Prose ed.).
1 There is a play on the word urisha meaning (1) religion and (2) the bull Nandr.
Sivivasakta is to be interpreted in two ways; (i) Siva-ansakta meaning devoted to Siva', and (ii) Sintapasaka meaning 'attached to Parvatr'.
• Ugra is a name of Siva. • Dvijihua (two-tongued) means (i) a serpent, and (i) a backbiter. • Maitri is one of the four bhāvands which Yogios cultivato.
