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JULY, 1883.)
SANSKRIT GRANTS AND INSCRIPTIONS.
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(1) हससीमकैः। तस्मादिजवरस्यास्य भुंजतो न विकल्पना कर्तव्या कैश्चन नरैः सार्थसा(1) धुसमाख्यकैः । अयैवं यदि लोप्तास्य स तदा पापभाजनः । पालने हि परौ(रो)धर्मो
TTÜ raa ('") हत् । तथा चोक्तं सामान्योयं धर्मसेतु पाणां काले काले पालनीयो भवद्भिः स्ववंशजो वा
परवंस (श )जो वा रामो बत प्रा. (15) fua ACT or TT: voc. pl.) FRÅK #İ HÀGICHUA
T HAT THETICHET (9)are a (16) Ata ger ahefa THTÍCTE(T) UT fogaisa afasta af (?)
कोनाम साधुः पुनराददाति । बहुभि(1) वसुधा भुक्ता राजभिः सगरादिभिः यस्य यस्य यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तदा फलम् लिखित
(sic.) HY HTraffre(18) fre(TOT II Hatia II
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11 . Translation.
creator replied on the matter of the fulfilment Öm! Salutation to Vinayaka! Hail! Victory of the object (v. 5) :and prosperity!
O thou Chaulukya, king of kings, marryMay the arms of the god of all gods (Siva) ing the princess of the Rashtrakūtas in Kanyaprotect (you or us),-bearing in his eight kubja, bless thou (the world) with offspring hands) the arrow, the viná, and the rosary, the obtained of her (v. 6). lotus, then the serpent, the citron, the trident, Thus here there may be for certain a far and the club (khatvánga, "*)-gift-conferringand extending race of the Kshattriya-born of at the same time terrifying (!)-making clearly Chauluky a, like the many streams of a manifest his mind, all sentimental as it is. river from a mountain (v.7). Otherwise how could he have protected the In that family was known a king, a reworld, from the Dånavas ? (v.1).
nowned name Bârappa, beloved of Fame, May that Hari, the lord of the celes- who avoided the wives of the enemy, afraid tials,--his mind full of all (poetic) flavours, - as it were of even (their) touch (v. 8), who preserve the world, who bears the Padmâ, the having obtained the country of Lât a, verified discus, and the gem Kaustubha, the mace and to the delight of the people, the maxims of the the conch-shell, and here again the lotus ! science of politics : and who winning over his (v.2).
subjects and destroying his enemies, always The unborn lord (Brahma) bears the ka- obtained the fruit of the replenishment of his mandalu" and the sruch, and the rosary, telling treasury (v. 9). the mantras (on its beads). He, the more parti- From him was born Gongiraja-the cularly tinged with poetical) feelings, creates native land of victory,-- from whom all kings mankind to keep off the enemies ! (v. 3). learnt the duties of royalty-the first home
Once upon a time there arose a man, a jewel of the family, the guardian of his subjects, who of a king, from the ocean of his chuluka," by the planted his foot on the crest of the enemies churning of it with the mount Mandara of of unbounded splendour (v. 10), who relieved anxiety arising out of the depression caused) his own land like the greater Vishnu, the land by the Daityas (v.4).
that was seized upon by powerful enemies like He, having saluted him, said, “What shall demons (v. 11). I do, o lord ?" And to him the well-pleased From him was the gloriotis Kirttirje
1. Khagvanga is a club or staff with a skull at the top, considered as the weapon of Siva, and carried by macetics and Yogis Vide Mon. Williams' Sans. Dict.
16 Tho wooden ewer for carrying water used by Yogis and Sanny sins. Ib.
10 Sruch is a sort of wooden ladle used for pouring clarified butter on a sacrificial fire, made of Pallás or Khadirs wood. Ib.
11 Chuluka may mean the hand hollowed to hold water an Asjali, op waterpot-kaman dahe. Vide H.
