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beneath their ears, stood, covered as it were of all virtuous qualities, was born, the Sri with shame, at the (very) edges of the quarters Rashtra kû ta family became invincible to of the compass. Having seen that Gange, - its foes, just like the Yådava family when who verily had not been conquered by any | Madhuripu" was born : and by him his enemies others; who was strong in the possession of were clearly made to be exactly like his followers, the excellent constituents of regal power; who since the former, by his slashing, (were driven had pervaded the whole world; and who away so that they saw the boundaries of the was possessed of a pride that was held in com- regions and were destroyed and were made to mon with no others, -was at length (conquered abandon their food and ornaments, while the and) imprisoned by him, Kali fled far away, latter, by his liberality, (were satisfied so that as if through fear lest he himself should be they saw the limits of their desires and were punished with confinement. Having with his made proud and were decorated with necklaces armies, which no other army could withstand, of pearls. [When his father, seeing bis superquickly caused Vatsarâja, intoxicated with human form which like that of Kộishna was fitted the goddess of the sovereignty of the country to protect the three worlds from misfortune, was of) Gauda that he had acquired with ease, to giving him the sole supremacy over the carth*]," enter upon the path of misfortune in the centre he addressed to his father this seemly speech, of the deserts of) Maru, he took away from "Let it be, O my father!; this belongs to thee; him not only the two (regal) umbrellas of has not the necklet," given by thee, been acGanda, that were as radiantly white as the cepted by me like a command that is not (to be) rays of the autumn moon, but also, at the withstood ?": and then, -when that father had same moment, his fame, that had reached to gone to adorn heaven so that nothing was left the extremities of the regions. Since, with (of him) savo (his) fame,-he, though alone, his pure actions, he quickly drove far away by the expansion of his preëminent valour Kali, who had established himself on the earth, quickly [bereft of their lustre®] twelve famous and made again complete the splendour of the [kings*] who, combining together, had preparKritayuga, -it is wonderful how Nirupama ed themselves to destroy*] the earth, -just as became invested with the name of) Kalival- the fire of universal dissolution with the
diffusion of its excessive glowing heat [de(L. 14.)-From that same Nirupama, prives*] the twelve suns (of their lustre). possessed of fortitude, there sprang a son When Ganga,-though liberated by him, in GovindarAja, highly esteemed of good his exceeding compassion, from his long capti. people, who was pure of soul, and whose feetvity, and sent away to his own country, were touched by the proud heads of kings through excess of pride stood (again) in opposi(who bowed down before him), just as from the tion to him, then, in less time than that in ocean there sprang forth the moon, which is of which a frown could be noticed on his lofty pure essence, and the rays of which touch the brow, he was quickly conquered by his shower lofty head of Paramêśvara,-and who caused (of arrows)" and imprisoned again. The politic gladness to the goddess of (regal) fortune and lord of Mâlava, seeing from afar that his was possessed of prowess and was always rising fortunes depended solely and entirely upon higher and higher, just as if he were the sun, bowing down at his feet, performed obeisance which causes the happiness of the waterlilies to him with his hands placed palm to palm in (that flower by day) and is possessed of glowing supplication : what wise man, possessed of but heat and is always rising from the lofty moun. little strength, enters into the extremity of tain of the East. When he, the king, the asylum competition with a strong man?; for the
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25 Vishnu, jor Krishna. 30 See note 9 above.
11 Dr. Bühler's suggestion, that the kanthika was the sign of the position of Yuvarija seems to be correct. In an unpublished Eastern Chalukys krant there occurs the passage Tat-rutan Vijayadityash krita-kanthiki. pattabandh-bhishekam balam-uchchatya Táh-adhip másam-ekan (Verngf-mandalam-anvapalayat ]
» Viksh&pa. Here, and in l. 29 below, I adopt the meaning suggested by Dr. Biihler. It seems to be justified, as viksh pa has the meanings of the act of throwing apart or asunder; sending, despatching ; scattering,' and vi+ kship has the meaning of letting loose a bowstring, shooting off.' But, as pointed out by Dr. Bühler, vikshopa may have some purely technical meaning not yet determined, being used in the Gurjara grants in the place of the skandhaudra, camp', of other grants.
