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265 overcome the duality of nature, whose fame is immaculate like the snow, a necklace of pearls and the lustre of Siva's laughter, who is the wick of the light which is the treasure of knowledge, who is the Cupid as it were among the Mantravādis, who is a lion to the elephants in the form of adverse disputants, who is the sun in the firmament of the Ma[du]va gana and the superintendent of the illustrious Virapura Tirtha.
Verse 2. Renowned is the great sage Prabhāchandra who owns profound interest in the tenets of Lord Jina, whose sharp intellect is adept in adducing proofs in favour of the Jaina system of philosophy and who is the fitting abode of the career devoted to the welfare of others.
Verse 3. Distinguished is the illustrious teacher Rāmachandra who bears the epithet Traividya, an ornament of the monks. His favourite disciple is Traividya Prabhēndu ( i. e., Prabhāchandra ) Bhattāraka.
Lines 20-30. Hail! May they live for ever-the Three Hundred Mahājanas of the eminent agrahāra of Sėdimba; who possess the virtues of self-restraint, self-discipline, study of the scriptures, meditation, concentration, silence, performance of religious exercises, chanting the holy syllables and tranquillity of mind; who never go back on their words uttered once; who perform the exorcising ritual by pouring the oblations in the sacred fire for breaking open the doors of the city.gates of Kānchipura; who are a conflagration to the forest of opposing clans; who liave crossed the ocean of the four Vedas; who are well-versed in composing manifold forms of speech; who are the gods on earth endowed with sixty-four arts; who entice the deity Jvūlini of golden earrings; who have qualified themselves in all lores; who are an adamantine cage as it were to the refugees seeking protection; who are unassailable like the elephants of the quarters; and who are attached like bees to the lotus-feet of the illustrious god Nārāyaṇa.
Verse 4. In times of yore the extensive forest Khāņqava was destroyed by Nara (Arjuna, a man); the impregnable island of Lankā was consumed to flames by a Vāvara (Hanumān, a monkey); the Three Cities (Traipura) were reduced to ashes by a spark of fire springing from an incensed ascetic (i. e., Śiva). But lol unique is the glory of this citadel of Sedimba, which is waxing ever stronger with its over-bearing splendour, defying any assault-a creation of the immortal hand as it were !
Lines 34–52. Hail! In the Chalukya-Vikrama year 48, the cyclic year being sõbhakrit, on Māgha su, 10, Monday, all the Three Hundred Mahā. janas completed the construction of a basadi at Sěđimba and installed the image of the god śāntinātba therein. In great splendour they set up a golden pinnacle on it and named it Brahma Jinālaya. Then for performing the daily eight-fold
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