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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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thirteen days, ruling the earth. - (331) Then, having assumed the appearance of a beautiful woman, & witch, called Bhatta, approached the king at nightfall. - (332) Having weakened his memory by various pleasing words, she invited him, who was delighted, to witness the greatness of the festival of sacrifice. - (333) When the emperor, accompanied by his handred Bons and grandsons, went there next morning, she made him an offering to the circle of the goddesses. - (334) Even now there are visible on a rock the impressions of two knees, which mark the ascension to heaven of her, who became a demi-goddess in consequence of that action. - (335) Even now the god Satakapaloba, the circle of the (divine) Mothers, that rock, and that story, are remembered in the mathas of Kheri.
(336) Then his son Kshitinanda, who, (like) a bulb of the family-tree, had been spared by the goddess, ruled over the earth for thirty years.
(337) His son, called Vasunanda, the author of a celebrated Kamasastra, ruled over the earth for fifty-two years and two months.
(338) His son Nara (II.) was king for sixty (years); and his son Aksha, who caused the village of Akshavala to be built, for the same number of years.
(339) Thereon his son G+Opaditya, who exhibited the return of the primitive age by his care for the castes and orders, ruled over the earth together with the islands. - (340) He gave. away Sakhola, Khagi, Kahadigrama, Skandapura, Samangasa, and other agraháras - (341) Having consecrated (the temple of) Jyáshtheevara on the hill called) Gopadri, this virtuous (leing) granted the Gops agraháras to Brahmaņs born in the countries of the Aryas. - (342, 343) Having banished to Bhokshiravatika those who ate garlic, he placed at Khasata those Brahmans who neglected their rules of conduct; and, having imported other holy Brahmaņs from pure countries, he caused them to settle in Vaschika and other agraháras. - (344) He, who obtained the title of "the uppermost guardian of the world" in panegyrical poems, did not permit the slaughter of animals except at a sacrifice. - (345) Having ruled over the earth for sixty years and six months, he went to the worlds of the virtuous, in order to enjoy the results of his good deeds.
(346) His son Gokarna, who founded the temple of) Gokarnevara, held the earth for fifty-eight years diminished by thirty days.
(347) His son was Narendraditya (I.), whose other name was Khinkhile, and who caused the consecration of the temple of) Bhutosvara and (the conducting of the Akshayiņi. - (348) His Guru, Ugra by name, who possessed the divine favour, and whose appearance was full of splendour, built (the temple of) Ugroba and & circle of the divine) Mothers. (349) Having been the lord of the earth for thirty-six years and a hundred days, the virtuous (king) obtained the sinless worlds in consequence of his prolonged good conduct.
(350) Then his son, Yudhishthira (I.), whom people called “the blind (Andha)Yudhishthira" on account of his small eyes, became king. -[(351-372) He loses the throne 338 prestraro P.
's On devichakra and matrichakra (verse 335) noo note on Verse 123. 334 Groot T.
336 " P. It appears from this verse that the Sriva temple at Khert was called Sataksploha, "the lord of hundred skulls, and that tradition explained that name by the sacrifice of king Baks and of his hundred on and grandsons (verso 888).
588 974 PT.
340काहाडियाम PT. शसाझाम P; शामा अनादि° 0 T; read शमालास. On Khagi (the modern Kakapur) and SamAngle, see K. R. verses 90 and 100.
del On Jylhthivara se note on verse 194, on Gópadri, K. E. p. 17. 48 STY P; 41° CT; read :
According to i. 15, panegyrical poema (prafasts) were used by Kalhapa as correctives of his narrative. On prasasti see now Dr. Bühler's remarks in the Vienna Oriental Journal, Vol. II. p. 86. 146 aurret p. qerara PC.
346 Toff P. PT. P. 347 °gfa&raqoP; fast C T; road afarurat . A temple of Bhatékvara or Bhataba wm already oxisting at the times of Asoka and Jalauka L. ; 190 i. 107, 148. In ii. 198 and v. 46, it is mentioned along with Vijay M. Akshayinl must have been the name of a river; compare noto on verde 150, and Balavatt in verse 829.
