Indian Antiquary Vol 11

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1882.
(L. 13.)–His son was Indraraja, the served him as a mace, and acquired the conprotector of the earth, -whose shoulders were dition of being the supreme king of kings and scratched by the blows of the tasks of ele- the supreme lord. Even with but a few dependphants and shone with the juice of rut that ents, possessed of chariots and horses which flowed from their split open temples; who were not to be conquered, he quickly overcame destroyed his enemies on the earth; and who | the boundless army of the Karnataka," which was, as it were, the golden mountain of the had been expert in defeating the lord of excellent Rashtrakûtas. His queen-who Kanchi and the king of Kerala and the Cholas satisfied all desires, and was pure, and destroyed and the Pandyas and Sri-Harsha" and Vajrata. .............., just as the moon- (L. 27.)--And he, the favourite of the world. light fills the regions, and is clear, and destroys the supreme king of great kings, the supreme ..........,-was by her mother's sidelord, the most worshipful one, Khadgaof the Sôma lineage, and by her father's valoka-Sr 1-DantidurgarAjad va, with side of Chaluky a birth. She attained the a proper appreciation of their merits thus position of honourable young women who issues his commands to all the ráshtrakdgas and are faithful wives; and, through (her) protect. vishayapatis and gramakūtas :ing and nourishing (them), (the whole of) (L. 28.)—"Be it known to you that,--six mankind acquired the same freedom from mis- hundred and seventy-five years of the Sakafortune as (her own personal) attendants. kála having elapsed, (or in figures) 675 years, From her, he, the best of kings, who protected ................., on the day the expanse of the whole world, ........ called Rathasaptami of the month Magha, under ........, obtained a virtuous son. the sign of the holder of the scales, 80-in order
(L. 18.)-When (by the death of Indra) the to increase the religious merit and fame of space between the regions, purified no longer (Our) parents and of Ourself, the village named by the mass of his glory, lost its lustre,-then Karandivadejaphitadóülavada (?), included in he, who was named Sri-Dantidurgard jay the Koppara Five-hundred bhukti, has been (became) the sun of the waterlily that was his given by us, with libations of water, and family. In the battles of him, a very lion of according to the rule of bhúmichchhidra, for a king, the terrified and ashamed elephants of the purpose of continuing the agnihotra and his enemies, rooting up the posts (to which they the bali and the charu, to Náråyanabhatta, an are bound), go away so that they are not known inbabitant of Kara hata ka, who is well of anywhere. Through the shooting up of the versed in the Vedas and Veddigas, a student of young sprouts of his prowess and his fierce the Bahvricha (sákhd), and belonging to the anger, the turreted fortresses of his enemies fall Vasishtha gôtra, the son's son of Bhatta-Trividown, together with their hearts. Mankind krama, and the son of Krishṇabhatta. And that gaze intently upon the tearing open and rend- (village) is not to be entered by the irregular ing asunder of the high banks of the great or the regular troops; and the established cus. river Mahî and of the Rê vâ, accomplished by toms of it are withheld from injury by) the his victorious elephants. His affection for his enterprise of wicked men; and it is to be conmother was demonstrated by the fact of his tinued, free of all molestation, by (future) mother making grants of land in each village kings, whether of Our lineage, or others. And in four hundred thousand villages. Without it is the village which is thus defined as to its taking up his polished weapon ; unawares ; four boundaries; on the E. is the village of without any inward concentration of his Uvâtyalêvidi (?); on the S. is the Brahman's thoughts (?); and without any effort, -by simply village of På ragâvâ; on the W. is the village of knitting his brows, he straightway conquered
Vilvavade (?); and on the N. is the village of Vallabha" with a spike of wild rice that Aitavade. It is given with all the rows and
This expression may be taken as indicating that all the region of the north," by Puliket II. in the seventh Dantidurga's kingdom was a laksha-chutushtaya or oentury A. D. Four-lao country.
30 Tupurushanthite here seems to be an astronomical * i... the Western Chalukya king, Kirttivarma II.
expression. But it might also denote Dantidurga being * i. e. the army of Kirttivarma II.
weighed against gold, technically called tuldpurusha, * This refers to the ounquest of Sri-Harsha or Srl which gold would then be given to BrahmAbs at the time Harshavardhana of Kanyekubja, "the warlike lord of of making the grant of land.