Epigraphia Indica Vol 22

SR No.: 032576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1933
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. XXII.
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थोत्रैः संगम हृदयंगमा । सज्जमन्यस्तभायमण्वत्थामकः कृतिः ॥२०॥
TRANSLATION. Om Salutation to-Sūrya
(V. 1.) Let the object-fulfilling sun be worshipped faultlessly on Sunday, even at an unusual hour with the flowers and shoots of the Nimba tree.
(V. 2.) We reverence the tree-like Śiva who is indivisible and first born, who possesses a great extension of shade and is lofty and stands firm in the range of the wood on the shore of the western ocean, the matchless sprouts of whose branches blossom forth at the time of growing in the shape of the three worlds in between the sky and all its quarters.
(V. 3.) May the movement of the eye-brows of the lord Siva, who looks at the bow (held) in his hand with its sprout-like fingers bent, on which (bowo) when hundreds of serpents had provided it with a string, the body of Vishnu manifested itself in the guise of a radiant arrow in order to burn the three cities--be (the cause of your prosperity.
(V. 4.) There was a very powerful king named Pramāra, kpown in the three worlds, much regarded by sages through blessings, roused from sleep with many a flattering word by the kings bearing his seal on their heads, who was born of fire through the meditation of Vasishtha, and was adept in defying the valour of Visvämitæra.
(V. 5.) In his family was born Jagaddöva, the lord of the earth, whose name was true to its sense, and the exertions of whose arms were applied to render all the quarters kingless (i.e., free from enemies),
(V. 6.) whose (Jagaddēva's) father was Udayāditya, and whose uncle was the king Bhoja. These two kings (Udayāditya and Bhoja), having secured the stability as sovereigns of the earth, shone like the sun and the moon.
(V. 7.) Abandoned for ever by their lord, the deer-eyed (ladies) of the Andhra king, with their butter-soft feet, stumbling down, helpless as they were, on the roads, the ground of which was trampled by the hoofs of the horses of his (Jagaddēva's) army, are led by the rows of creepers (growing) on the sea-shore supporting them (as it were) with their copper-coloured twigs.
(V. 8.) He in sport uprooted the king of Chatradurga, aad at his oommand drop now, the streams on the slopes of the mountain, and the female bees in the midst of the forests, recite without ceasing, in different nates coming out of their throats, his all surpassing eulogies, fixed with (the libation of water in shape of) the rutty fluid of powerful elephants of his army.
(V. 9.) In every house the weeping widows of his enemies, having seen in Dorasamudra the peak-like heaps of the skulls of their lords, who came in contact with the pointed club-like tusks of his best elephants, increase vith tears the acute pain in the heart of the chief of Malahara?.
(V. 10.) It is a matter of great wonder, that; even now, the great food-tide of tests of the wives of the Gurjata Warriors, veeping day and night in the care-entrance of the Arbuda mountain,
1 This portion is badly mutilated [See above, p. 58, n. 5.-E.]