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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1880.
[O] ti Siriyâdêviyam jagam baņņisugun || Va || Ant=enisida Siriyâdêrigam Chaham(mum)d
Avanišam. ["} ga[m*) [putte*] negarttegam pogarttegam neley=enisida vira-Bijjaladêva-Vikrava(ma)dêva
kumararu sri{"] matu-Kisckad-eppattum Bågadagey-eppattum Keļavadi-[münüru]mam su[kha)
samkatha-(vi). [*] nôdadimd=a}du rajyam-geyyattam-ire Svasti Śrîmach-Châļukya-[Vikrama-varshada] 94neya [*] Virôdhi-samvatsarada 10..........
Translation. Reverence to the god) Sambhu, who is made beautiful by a chauri which is the moon that lightly rests upon his lofty head, and who is the foundation-pillar for the erection of the city of the three worlds! Hail! He, the lord, the excellent one-whose footstool is placed upon the substantial rays of all the diadems of the glorious immortals, who bow down before him,-acquired both the earth and the ocean!
(L. 4.)-The ocean, - from which the moon arose; which is the home of the goddess of fortune; which is adorned by the mountains that fled to it for protection; which is the place of the production of ever-new jewels; the surface of which is the favourite couch of the god) Mukunda"; and which is decorated with the streams of rivers, large and small, and with lines of surging waves caused by the motion of the aquatic animals which are driven to and fro by the play of the tortoises and the pathinafishes and the alligators and crowds of elephants in rat,-is marked, as if with a signet, with (the earth which is) the habitation of men and animals.
(L. 7.)-To the south of the mountain) Môru, which is esteemed the tiara of the earth which is charming as being considered to have that same ocean for its girdle, there is the good and spotless land of Bharata ; and to the south of this there is the charming country of Kuntala.
(L. 8.)-Many (kings),--who were the jewel- led earrings of the race of the Chank yas, which was considered to be the receptacle of endless happiness; and who were as mighty as lions in rending asunder the heads of the infuriated elephants which were their enemies, -governed it.
(L. 9.)-Hail! The brave king Chá munda is the sun of the white waterlilies which are those who are born in the Sind a lineage; the waterlilies, which are his feet, are shaken to and fro and are pressed down by the many headornaments of the kings who bow down before him; he has driven away the assemblage of his enemies; he is worthy to be praised by the kings of Gûrjara, Andhra, Draviļa, Magadha, and Népala, and others; his glory is perpetual; he is possessed of a very powerful army. Victorious is he, the king who excels in impetuosity;-who is the stage for the dances of the dancing-girl who is the goddess of victory; who has conquered (in) the battle-field ; who has broken the pride of arm of his enemies; who excels in the virtue of generosity; who is deeply versed in all knowledge; and who associates with learned men of various kinds. Tell me now; who are those who have acquired sufficiently great courage to withstand the king Chamanda, when they consider that it is his delight to frighten and pursue the hostile kings who bow not down before him, and then in his anger to assail their wealth, the vehicles in which they convey their goods, their troops of wives, their temples, their tents, and their countries ?
(L. 17.)- And as to the glory, which extends to the ten regions of the heavens's, of Siriyåd & vi, who was the wife of this glorious Mahamandalesvara king Chamunda:-Man. kind praise Siriyê dê vi, the virtuous wife of king Chamunda, saying that she is a very Arundhati in devotion to her husband, a very Bharati in wisdom, and a very Rati in beauty.
(L. 20.)-While the princes, the brave Bijjalad ê va and Vikramadê v&,-[who were
10 There are faint tracee, here and there, of two more lines of writing ; and after that, the rest of the stone appears to have been left onpolisbed and blank, unless the details of the grant have been intentionally effaced.
11 Vihan. 11 Guddra, gudana, is not exactly a tent in the English
meaning of the word. It is a large cloth which may be used indiffrrently sem carpet, or a curtain, or, suspended over a cross-bar supported at the extremities, 18 & rough kind of tent open at each end.
13 The four cardinal points of the compase, the four intermediate poihte, the seaith, and the baulir.
