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[X.] Asya danasya sakshiņah shaạnavati sahasra vishaya prakritayah. Yogyâpahartta Lo(bhâ) t mohật pramadena và sapanchabhirmmahadbhih påtakais samyuktovabhava(ti) yo rakshati sapu nyabhagbhava(ti). Apichatra Mana gita sloká svadattam paradattâm và yohareta vasundharam
shasht irvarsha saha srâņi vishtâyâm (jâyâ] jáyate krimiḥ. Svandatumsumabachchhakhyai duhkhamanyasya
pålanam. Danam và pålanamveti dánáchchhreyonu påla(na)m. Bahubbirbbasudha bhukta
rajabhi8 Sagara dhibhi yasya yasya yada bhūmis tasya tasya tadê phalam. Devasvant uvisham ghoramnavisham visham uchyate visham ekakinam hanti devasvam putra pautrakam. Sarvva kaladharabhůta
chitraka låbhijnena Visva Karmmícháryenedam sasa nam likhitam. Chatush kanduka vrihi bija(?)matram
dvi kandu ka kangu kshetram tadapi brahmadeyam iva rakslaniyam.
III. TRANSLATION May it be well. Success through the adorable Tryambak all having by personal strength 'Padmanabha, resembling (in colour) the and valour purchased his kingdom, daily eager cloudless sky. A sun illumining the clear firma- to extricate the ox of merit from the thick mire ment of the Jahnavi race, + distinguished of the Kali Yuga in which it had sunk, was for the strength and valour attested by the great Srîmân Mâdhava Mahadhiraja. His pillar of stone divided with a single stroke of son, the beloved sister's son of Krishna Lis sword, adorned with the ornament of the Varmma Mahadhirajá, who was the sun wound received in cutting down the hosts of to the firmament of the auspicious Kadamba his cruel enemies, was Srimat Kodgaṇi race, having a mind illuminated with the increase Varmma Dharmma Mahadhiraja of of learning and modesty, of indomitable bravery the Kan va yanasa gotra. His son, in- in war, reckoned the first of the learned, was heriting all the qualities of his father, possessing Śrîmîn Kogan i Mahadhiraja. His a character for learning and modesty, having son, named Avinita, possessed of the three obtained the honours of the kingdom only for powers of increase, who had brought anxiety the sake of the good government of his sub. to the face of Yama® on account of the smallness jects, a touchstone for testing) gold the learned of the residue left after the countless animals and poets, skilled among those who expound and offered to him as a tribute, (viz.) the brave men practise the science of politics, the author of a consumed in the sacrifice of the face of the many treatise on the law of adoption, was Sriman wars wagod for the kingdoms of A ndari, AlatMadhava Mesh Adhiraja. His son, pos
tûr, Paurulare, Pelnaga, equal to Kirktar. sessed of all the qualities inherited from his jana, the mighty master of the fifteen creationst father and grandfather, having entered into war and of tle syllable om, was called Duvvinita. with many elephants (80 that) his fame had His son, the lotuses of whose feet were tasted the waters of the four oceans, was Srimad dyel with the balls of honey shaken from the Hari Varmma Mahadhiraja.
lines of bending bees, the clustering savages, His son, devoted to the worship of Brah- rubbing against one another, had the illustrious mans, gurus and gods, praising the feet of Nára. name of Mushkara. His son, of a pure yana, was Srîmân Vishnu Gopawisdom acquired from his being the abode of Mahadhirkjå. His son, with a head puri- fourteen branches of Icarning, an embodiment fied by the pollen from the lotuses t' feet of of the nine treasures, I skilled among those who • Vishnu. Jahnavt kula-Ganga kula or vanda.
* Gorl of death, judge of the dead, the Indian Pluto. Might also be rendered the donor of lands to the
+ The reference is not understood. Dattaka line.
Vishna. Siva.
1 Nara-kola-nava niddhi, the nine treasures of Kusakti traye-these are prabhu fakts, mantra fakti, bera, god of riches, vis. padma, mahapadma, fankha. and usaha fakli, or the powers of sovereignty, of counsel, makara, kachchhapa, mukunda, nanda, rila, kharva. It and of energy or perseverance.
is uncertain what these are.
