Indian Antiquary Vol 18

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 52

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(FEBRUARY, 1889.
33ļu sūryya-grabañadolu sâsira kavileyan=aļamkara-sahitam chatu[r]vvôda-pâragar
appa sâsirvvar-brâhma34 narggey=nbhayamukhi-gotta pa(pha)ļam=ak[ko]uvidharmmaman-aliyalu mana
damdavarggey-int=i punya-tîrtthangalolu sasi. 35 ra kavileyuma[] sasiryva[r]=brâhmanaruman-alida pamchamahậpåtakanakku ||
Om Svasti 'Srimat paravadi-barabha-bhé. 36 rund-Apara-námadhêyar-appa Srinandi-pandita-dêvar=mmattama paduva-volad-olage
pannirvvar ggåvand[u]galge daye-geyd=umbaļiy-agi 37 kotta mattar=nnura Pannondu perggade Prabhakarayyana maga Rudrayyange
daye-geyd-umbaliyagi kotta mattarappadi38 nálku sê nabova Habbaņņamge daye-geyd-umbaliy-agi kohta mattar-ppadinálka
Makiyara-KAvaņņamge day[e*)-geyd=a[m]bali39 y.agi kotta mattar-la Kantiyara-Nakayyange dayo-geyd=umbaliy-Agi kotta mattare
nnálka kammav=aru-núru srimad-Bhuvansi. 40 kamalla-Śântinátha-dêvargge sarvva-namasya (sya)m-igi padeda mattar-irppattu 11
Bahubhir"-vvasudha bhukta rajabhirs(8) -Sagar-Adibhih ya 41 saya yassya yada bhůmis-taasya tassya tada paspha)lard II Sva-dattam para
dattam v yo haréta vasundhara[m] shashthirwyvarsha-sahasra42 yarmishthâyân" jậyatê krimiḥ 11
SOME SOUTH INDIAN LITERARY LEGENDS. BY PANDIT S. M. NATESA SASTRI, M. F. L. S.
INTRODUCTION. I have frequently had the privilege of laying before the readers of this Journal the folk. tales of the people of Southern India; but in addition to these there are current among them many legendary tales based on Sanskrit or Tamil Literature and Tradition. These legends, are, I think, worth recording in the forms in which they occur in popular use, and I propose in the following pages to give specimens of them. They are specially interesting, because now-a-days they are rapidly disappearing before the march of education and the spread of communication with the outer world.
The time to hear them is during moonlight nights, after the simple toils of the villagers are over for the day, and their frugal, but withal plentiful, repast is finished. It is then that they delight to squat themselves on mats in the open moonlight, and spend a few hours relating folk-tales and folk-legends to each other. Several such evenings have I spent most pleasantly, with simple but hospitable companions, during my travels in search of the ideas that pervade them. And I trust that the results of what I have been thus able to record, may prove to be something more valuable than matters of mere passing interest.
LEGEND I. On a certain day, a learned but poor Pandit was coming to the council house of king Bhoja on a visit. His intention was to display his learning to that great monarch, and receive presents from him for his hard-earned knowledge. Now, to go to a king with empty hands is considered a great sin among Hindus. So, on his way he bought some sticks of sugar-cane as a present for the king, cut them into smaller ones, each of a cubit's length, and made a bundle of them. When he approached the palace, he found he was too late to enter the council. chamber that evening, for the king and his learned assembly had already dispersed. So, the Brahman, not relishing the idea of missing the morning council as well, by going elsewhere for the night, made up his mind to sleep on the palace premises, so as to be ready.
31 Metre, Sloka (Anushtubh): and in the following verse. » Read shashtish varaha-sahasrani vishthayan.