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274/The Raṣṭrakūtas and Jainism
(V. 11.) After him, to guard both the world and the fame of his charming relatives of the ancestors in his righteous family who have become favourites inasmuch as they are good fame, filling the earth, incarnate-and to destroy the wickedness of the Kali age, the glorious Amōghavarsha, the anihilator of his enemies, is ruling this earth, seated on the throne.
(V. 12.) The command of this excellent (king) other sovereigns perpetually carry on their heads like a garland. The creeping plant of his fame grows up to the fillets on the foreheads of the array of the elephants of the quarters. The mighty valour that dwells in his hand is far away from no one. He being the very sun which with its heat scorches all mountains, who is the king above whom he does not rise?
(V. 13.) He with his own seal has stamped all (land) as far as the four oceans; the seals of all kings he has broken with his Garuda seal.
(V. 14.) Honour surely we must the great kings of the past whose acts of religion we are to preserve; destroyed are the wicked kings of the present; solicit we must those future rulers who share our sense of religion.
(V. 15.) What imports that fleeting royalty which some have enjoyed by their bravery, some bestowed on others, and others again resigned even? Great men, to secure fame, must cherish religion only.
(V. 16.) Having seen that this life, unstable like wind and lightning, is void of substance, he has devised this gift to the gods, most meritorious on account of a donation of land.
(Line 15.) He, the Paramabhaṭṭāraka, Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara, the favourite of fortune and the earth, the glorious Amoghavarsha, the glorious Vallabhanarendra dēva, who meditates on the feet of the Paramabhaṭṭāraka,
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