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of the universe;" and who, even in childhood, having with his) army gone to and visited Some svar, offered up before him the whole earth by direction of his father, and then returned.
Then Sri Chhittaraja, the son of his brother, Vajja da deva, became king, who being himself an exalted personage, even though a child, greatly exalted the Silara dynasty. The wives of his antagonists, who were cut down by his unsheathed sharp sword, had, owing to him, their hair hanging loose, their necklaces fallen off from the vicinity of the edges of their breasts, and their eyes devoid of collyriam," His fame, like a creeper, climbs the universe which is like a shed, as if it had been reared up by being watered with the tears of the women of his destroyed enemies.
Then his younger brother Nagarjuna became king, who, in his anger, was like the fire of destruction to his proud foes, and in gracefulness like Krishna to the courtezans," and on hearing of whose superhuman and excessive strength of arm, the itching of the arms of his enemies for the battle-field goes, as it were, to sleep. The guardian elephants of the several quarters of the universe do not open their eyes, having their flow of rut-water dried up by the wind blowing over the rut-water of the intoxicated Gandha elephants" in his matchless camp, and having their eyes closed through fear, in con- sequence of the spreading of the excessive volumes of smoke enveloping all the quarters which issued from the conflagration of the cities of his enemies.
After him his younger brother Mummuni became king, who was Capid himself incarnate,"
who had destroyed the power of his enemies, and on whose taking up his bow after the ceremony of waving lights before the horses, even the mighty Indra cast aside his yearly bow." Upon that king assuming an excellent body of renown, Ananta på la, the son of Någårjuna, conversant with the whole circle of politios, whose body was purified by the highest piety, and wbo was an ornament of the princes of the Silara family, became king. With the wind-like force of his arm (?) he cast into the ocean of the edge of his sword” those wicked heaps of sino who at a time of inisfortune from relatives that bad become hostile, having obtained power, devastated this whole Konkan district, by harassing gods and Brâhmans; and then he a friend of the lord of ... stamped his own fame on the face of the moon." While that moon-like prince, who is a wish-giving jewel to his friends, who is a Cupid pleasing to the sight of the fawn-eyed ones, who is the one hero of the world, is righteously proteoting the whole sphere of the earth, after having rid it of enemies
Now in the happy and victorious reign of the illustrious Anantad ê va, the chief of the Mahamandalesvaras, who by means of his own spiritual merit has obtained the five great titles," who is the chief of the great Simantas (sub: ordinate chiefs), who is born in the family of Jim û tav å ha na, the Silara prince, lord of the excellent city of Tagara, who boasts of the standard of the Golden Eagle,"....... the lord (P) of Lanka, nonobalant in the great ocean .... the Fire of Destruction in his wrath ....who is adorned with all the royal titles -
" These are said to be seven. See Mahabharata, Bhishma Parva (Bomb. Ed.) p. 8; and the reference given at Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 157.
*3 Literally fastened(?). See remarks on this infra. *! These are all marks of widowhood. *5 i.e. among the Gopis of Gokul as applied to Krishna.
30 The eight quarters, east, south-east, south, &c., each of wbich is supposed to have a guardian elephant.
** This is the higheat kind of elephants, supposed to give out a special smell, from which the name.
* Oupid himself is 'bodiless.' See the story in Ku. mdra Sambhara, canto IV.
* Cf. Raghu. IV. 25. The ceremony is still performed on the Dasard day, which is regarded as the suspicious day for notting out on an expedition. The 'yearly bow' is the rainbow. 30 i.e. on his death.
A common expression, cf. Viracharita, Act III. 31 Or reading the original differently, as it may be read, -"those heaps of fearful injustice." » The temples, &c. of the gods, that is to say
** This appears to be some hyperbole about the moon's spota, like those of which our poeta have a large number.
13 See Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. vol. X. p. 865; and Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 251.
- This is the device of the S11Aras, and appears on the seal
of Dr. Büaler's Plate, Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 276. Dr. Burnell (s. Ind. Palæogr. p.75n) seems not to have been aware of this. But see now Ibid. (2nd ed.) 107. At p. 881 of Graham's Kolhapur (Government Selections) the device is alluded to in the phrase Soovurn Agooroodudluaj. Sir Walter Elliot (Jour. R. As. Soc. vol. IV. p. 34) anys: "It is remarkable that both the Yada and the Silahsra had adopted the golden Garuda as their ensign, which the prince seenis unwilling to allow to his feudatory." One of the other titles in the text is tryfa which occurs in Wathen's Inscription No. X. p. 9 line 5. See also Asiatic Researches vol. I. pp. 859. In Wathen's Inscription No. X. the expression TENTAT, also occurs ; in Dr. Bühler's (Ind. Ant. vol. V. p. 978) मंडलीकशिखामणि... May रायपितामह then menn 'like a Brahmadêva among kings,'-(this, I find, is Wathen's rendering, see J. R. 4. s. vol. V. p. 186)-first Among kingsP The next expression to this I cannot make out.
af Dr. Bhaa renders this by "resplendent amongst the row of rajas" (J. B. B. R. A. S. vol. IX p. 219). The er. pression occurs at J.B.B.R.A.S. vol. XII. p. 7; J. R. A. 8. vol. V. Inscrs. No. 7 and No:9; J.L.S. of Bombay vol. III. p. 319 (3rd sheet); Ind. Ant. vol. VIII. p. 94: and Canningham's Archeological Survey Reports vol. VI. Plate 21. At J. B. B. R. A. S. vol. XIII. p. 3, the expression is THERS.
