Life of Hemchandracharya

Author(s): Manilal Patel
Publisher: Singhi Jain Shastra Shiksha Pith Mumbai

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TRANSLATION:
1. The King, Sri Mularāja, is victorious, who, establishing the oblation, is like Hari, who chained Bali ( e )--who, endowed with three royal ) powers (Tier), is like the Bearer of Pināka accompanied by the goddess ) Tris'akti, --who, the refuge of Kamalá, is like Brahman whose Throne is lotus ( Kamala ).
Note: The three powers of the king originate from his majesty, energy and incantation. As regards the goddess Trisakti, see Aufrecht. Oxf. Lat. p. 59. The third simile used in the verse is already found in Mülarāja's gift of land, see Indian Antiquary, vol. VI, p. 191. .
2. Burnt with anger as if through remembering the abduction of the Gopis, his wives in an earlier life, Sri Mūlarāja, (an incarnation of ) Purusottama, killed the haughty Abhiras.
Noto: Mūlarāja killed, as is described in the Duyās'raya ( Indian Antiquary, vol. IV, pp. 74-77 ), Grahnripn, the Abhira king of Sorath, who was alleged to be an incarnation of Narakasura. The latter had stolon a lot of shopherlesses whom Krona released and married; see H. H. Wilsonl Vienupurūnct, vol. V, PP. 87-92; 104 ( ed. F. E. Hall ).
3. Sri Mūlarāja has created from his fame a new type of an ocean which prohibits entry to the rivers of renown of his enemies.
4. As the jackals entertained themselves on the battlefield with the princes killed by Sri Mülarāja, even so did the Apenrases in heaven through passionate physical embraces, through hair. pulling, through kissing the lotus-face, (and ) through inflicting wounds by nails.
Note: The last words describe, in relation to the Apsarases, the bāhya sambhoga as presented n the Kānas'astra.
5. Do not leave the forest, o princos, thinking: "the rainy season has set in!" Does not is here a lion-this great king Mülarāja ?
Noto: The princes who, defeated by Mūlarāja, had fled into the forest, might think that the danger was over on account of the impossibility of military operations during the rainy season, They were, however, to realise that Mülarāja's lion-like energy would enable him to find them out.
6. It is hoard in the S'äetra that the Müla-sun is the root of evil, And yet what a wonder that now the Müla-king is praised in the three worlds!
Note: The conjunction of the sun with the Müla spells destruction, as surely this moon-house. whose protecting deity is Nirrti, works only evil.
7. The princes, who are drowned in the water of Mülarāja's swords, are seen emerging in the floods of the heavenly Gargā.
8. The arm of Sri Mülarāja, on which this sword sparkles, possesses the beauty of the peak of the eastern mountain, on which the moonlight shines. It deforms the face of the enemies," as this deforms ) the day-lotuses.
9. The grim sparks of the fire of the strength of the king Cāmunda are, although not hanolled for a long time, still unbearable to enemy-princes.
Note: I think this means: even though Cāmunda has been dead for a long time the memory of his power is still painful to his enemies.
10. An unbearable heat (of power ) was that of the king S'rimad Vallabha; when it attacked the enemy-kings, it caused (them) a long sleep (of death ).
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