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blade of grass for the sake of another, he power, and on whose engaging in the work of rescued Sankhach a da from Garuda. drawing his bow in the battle, Bhishma, Drona,
In his family was born the prince Kapardi, the son of Pritha," and others were all cast into an ornament of the Sildra dynasty, whose clean the shade. footstool was streaked with the beams of the To him was born a son, the illustrious Vajjafresh jewels in the diadems of all kings of the da dê ve, whose renown was noised about owing earth, and who was bold like Sri Sahas á i- to his astonishing and attractive exploits, who was ka.
the head-ornament of the circle of the earth," To him was born & son, named Pula sakti, and upon whose bosom, his strength being in his who was, as it were, the utmost limit of the arm, the goddess of royal splendour, suddenly polity proclaimed by the Preceptor of the Gods,'| appearing of her own accord in the midst of the and who having vanquished the whole multitude battle-field, enjoyed pleasure as on the bosom) of of his foes in the midst of the battle-field, Murâri.16 reigned over the earth unmolested.
To him was born an illustrious and righteous He had a son Kapardi the younger, the son, Aparajita, like Jayanta to Indra, like head-ornament of kings, who was, as it were, & Kartikeya" to Śive. He was Karna himself second sharp goad to his elephant-like enemies, in munificence, Yudhishthira in veracity, the and whose glory rendered the universe so exces- brilliant sun in prowess, and the staff of Kala sively white, that the elephant of the gods, the to his foes." Victorious is he who pr. moon, and the milky ocean shone not (before it). tected in this world subordinate chiefs who
To him, too, was born & son, Sri Vatpu- came for shelter, and others also the king, vann, an ornament of the lords of the earth, who deserves his' name of adamantine cage for who was the seat of great splendour, who had those who come for shelter'. In various ways, purified the entire sphere of the earth, and who, he welcomed Goma, when he came; he alone sporting in the battle-field, cut off with his confirmed to the name of Aiyapad dva sword one task of his adversaries' elephants, and the sovereignty which had been shaken; he rendered them devoid of masters."
afforded security to the kings Bhillami He had a son, the king Zanza, worthy of manamam budha." What more need be praise, who delighted all people like the moon, said of that king Råma bearing the title Sri ? and destroyed all evil like the sun wbo destroys | After him came the illustrious head-jewel of night," and who in his own name erected full kings, his son Vajjad adeva, well versed in twelve temples of Sambha, which were steps polity, whose exploits all people even yet extol methinks for the rise of) those suppliants of his with their bodies clothed, as it were, with hair who were labouring on the path to heaven. standing on end.
Then came his brother Sri Goggi, the 1 Then came his brother the king Arikesari, brilliant mass of whose glory was spread (in all respected by the good, who played the part directions), who had lit up the whole sphere of of the thunderbolt in the destruction of his the earth, who was powerful among the men of proud foes, who were like the great mountains
This story forms the subject of the Nagdnanda used in this sense elsewhere. To me this sense of the word Napaka, translated by Mr. P. Boyd. See also Treo and is quite new.
1. 6. e. Arjana. Serpent Worship pp. 169-170; Ind. Ant. vol. I. pp. 148, This phrase is a very common one. 149.
16 1. e. Vishnu, his wife being Srl or Lakshmi-the • See as to SAhasanka, Hall's Vasavadatta Introd. p. 18. goddess of splendour.
17 The war.god. "i. e. Brihaspati, to whom & work on the science of 10 Kala means Yama--the God of Death, one of whone Politics is attributed. See Jour. Bom. Br. Roy. As. Soc. names is Dandadhara, the holder of the staff. vol. VII. p. 62, and also Panchatantra (Bombay, Sanskrit 10 The original is somewhat obasure here. series) Tantra iv. p. 7 line 10, and note thereon..
10 This appears to have been a title of the Sildra. Bat This is the first exception I have seen to the general see also Jour. Roy. As. Soc. vol. V. p. 176, Inscription usage complained of by Mr. Ferguson. Jour. Roy. 48. No. viii., and Major Graham's Kolhapur, Inc. No. 17, Soc. (N. S.) vol. IV. p. 85.
p. 457, where the inscription belongs to the same family me .Glory or fame with our poets is always white. Cf. Wathen's inscription. Raghwathsa, II. 69. The elephant of Indra is also white. "This is conjectared to refer to Bombay (Asiat. Res. 1. See Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 277 note...
vol. I. p. 869). I do not understand the original. Some There appears to be a doublo entendre here. Vinayaks light may possibly, be derived from Ind. Ant. vol. VI. p. 63, means both devoid of masters, and Genapati, who is sap Yale's Marco Polo, vol. II. p. 331. A.RAJA Bhillame of posed to have only one tooth.
Deragiri (s. 1110-1115) is mentioned in Wathen's Theorip11 Here is another double entendre.
tion No. 9. And see Jour. Roy. As. Soc. vol, V. p. 178: J.B. 15 Pandit Bhagvan Al tells me that he has seen it I B.R.A.3. vol. IV. p. 164; sod Ind. Ant. vol. VI. p. 186.
