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being reflected in the water of the ocean, was if it were the army of Varuna, that had come at his command. When his elder brother's son named Pulikê sî, of dignity like that of Nahusha, was desired by the goddess of fortunes, and had his actions and his determination and his intelligence perverted by the knowledge that his uncle was enviously disposed towards him,-he, Mangalisa, whose advantage of power was completely destroyed by the use of the faculties of counsel and energy that were accumulated by him, lost his notslender kingdom and life in the attempt to secure the sovereignty for his own son.
The whole world, which then, in this interregnum, was enveloped by the darkness of enemies, was lit up by the masses of the lustre of his unendurable splendour; otherwise, when was it that the dawn (again) bespread the sky, which was of a dark colour, like a swarm of bees, by reason of the thunderclouds which had the glancing lightning for their banners, and the edges of which were bruised (by striking against each other) in the rushing wind? And when, having obtained an opportunity, Govinda", who bore the title of Appâyika, came to conquer the earth with his troops of elephants, then at the hands of the armies of him who was straightway assisted even by the western (ocean), he, whose path was the ocean of the north, acquired in war a knowledge of the emotion of fear, the reward which he there obtained." When he was laying siege to Van â vasi, girt about by (the river) Ham sâna di which disports itself in the theatre which is the high waves of the Varada, and surpassing with its prosperity the city of the gods, the fortress which was on the dry land, having the surface of the earth all round it covered by the great ocean which was his army, became, as it were, in the very sight of those that looked on, a fortress in
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25 i.e., was preferred by the people to Mangalia and his son."
39 i.e., Pulikêst.'
30 Lit., at this breaking of the umbrella (of sovereignty)."
si i.e., Palikê's.'
33 Probably one of the Rashtrakutas, several of whom bore this name, and who were always renowned for their elephants.
33 i.e., Palikes.'
3.e., Govinda.'
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the middle of the sea. Even the princes of the Gangas and the Alupa s", though they had already acquired prosperity, were always eager in drinking the nectar of close attendance upon him, being attracted by his dignity, and having abandoned the seven sins. In the Ko ǹkanas, the watery stores of the pools which were the Maury as were quickly ejected by the great wave which was Chandad anda, who acted at his command. When he, who resembled the destroyer of cities, was besieging that city, which was the goddess of the fortunes of the western ocean, with hundreds of ships that had the resemblance of elephants mad with passion,-the sky, which was as blue as a newly opened lotus, and which was covered with masses of clouds, became like the ocean, and the ocean was like the sky. Being subdued by his prowess, the Lâtas and the Mâļavas and the Gurjar as became, as it were, worthy people, behaving like chieftains brought under subjection by punishment. Envious because his troops of mighty elephants were slain in war, Harsha,-whose lotuses, which were his feet, were covered with the rays of the jewels of the chiefs that were nourished by his immeasurable power, was caused by him to have his joy melted away by fear. While he was governing the earth with his great armies, the Rê vào, which is near to the venerable (mountain of) Vindhya, and which is beauteous with its varied sandy stretches, shone the more by virtue of his own glory, though it was deserted by its elephants from envy of the mountains in the matter of their size. Being almost equal to Sakra" by the three constituents of kingly power that were properly acquired by him, and by his own virtues which were his high lineage and others, he attained the sovereignty of the three (countries called) Maharashtraka, which contained ninety-nine thousand villages. The
35 The meaning would seem to be that Govinda came in ships by way of the sea from the north, and that Pulikest was assisted to defeat him by some seafaring allies dwelling on the western coast.
36 The Varada, modern Wardâ, flows close under the walls of the present town of Banawasi. Hamsanadi' is probably the old name of a tributary stream of some size that flows into the Wards about seven miles higher up.
37 The Alupas, or perhaps Alupas, are mentioned again, as the foes of the Chalukyas in later times, in No. 2 of my second series of Kadamba inscriptions, at Jo. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. IX., p. 278, 1. 12.
38 Siva; or Indra.
39 Compared with the sails of the ships.
The Narmada, modern Nerbudda. 41 Indra.
Viz., prabhutva, the majesty or preeminence of the king himself'; mantra, the power of good counsel'; and utsäha, the force of energy.""
