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Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara, the glorious Jagattungadēva, commands all Rashtrapatis, Vishayapatis, Grāmakūļas, Āyuktakas, Niyuktakas, Adhikdrikas, Mahattaras and others, as they may be concerned : Be it known to you: -
(V. 17.) In the Mukulā family there blossomed like a flower, with ancestors worthy of honour, Erakōri, a home of the play of bravery.
(V. 18.) From that flower grew, as it were its fruit, a masterful man named Adhōra, the stay of his family who himself was lord of Kolanura.
(V. 19.) His son from Vijayanka was Bankēśa (alias) Sella-kētana, honoured in the world, a fierce fever to districts.
(V. 20.) Like another flashing sharp sword of mine, as commander of the hereditary forces he has uprooted, like trees, my adversaries.
(V. 21.) By my favour he has received and rules the thirty-thousand villages of which Vanavāsi is the foremost, never ceasing to prosper.
(V. 22.) At my desire, in his great valour he has striven to extirpate that lofty forest of fig-trees-Gangavādi, difficult to be cut down.
(Vs. 23 and 24.) On that occasion, though abandoned by my jealously minded feudatories, by himself, solely aided by the daring which sprang from his anger, setting at nought the enemy's policy, displaying a bravery in war which had one aim only, he made the anger of my heart not barren.
He, by whom
(V. 25.) That fort named Kēdala, difficult to be scaled on account of its ramparts, bars etc., though held by hereditary forces was at once ascended and easily taken.
(V. 26.) Having occupied that country, having driven
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