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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (V. 4.) When many members of that race, bent on conquest, applied to whom the title of Favourite of the Earth had at last become appropriate, had passed away,─ (V. 5.) There was, of the Chalukya lineage, the king named Jayasiṁha-vallabha, who in battle─ where horses, footsoldiers and elephants, bewildered, fell down under the strokes of many hundreds of weapons, and where thousands of frightful headless trunks and of flashes of rays of swords were leaping to and fro[1]─ by his bravery made Fortune his own, even though she is suspected of fickleness.[2] (V. 6.) His son was he who was named Raṇarâga, of divine dignity, the one master of the world, whose superhuman nature, (even) when he was asleep, people knew from the pre-eminence of his form.[3] (V. 7.) His son was Polekêśin, who, though endowed with the moon’s Beauty, and though the favourite of Fortune, became the bridegroom of Vâtâpipurî.[4] (V. 8.) Whose path in the pursuit of the three objects of life[5] the kings on earth even now are unable to follow ; and bathed by whom with the water of the purificatory rite, when he performed the horse-sacrifice, the earth beamed with brightness. (V. 9.) His son was Kîrtivarman, the night of doom to the Naḷas, Mauryas and Kadambas, whose mind, although his thoughts kept aloof from others’ wives, was attracted by the Fortune of his adversary. (V. 10.) Who, having secured the fortune of victory by his valour in war, being a scent-elephant of a king, of great strength, at once completely broke down the multitude of the broad kadamba trees─ the Kadambas.[6] (V. 11.) When his desire was bent on the dominion of the lord of the gods,[7] his younger brother Maṅgalêśa became king, who by the sheets of dust of his army of horse, encamped on the shores of the eastern and western seas, stretched an awning over the quarters.[8]
(V. 12.) Who in that house which was the battle-field took in marriage the damsel, the Fortune of the Kaṭachchuris, having scattered the gathering gloom, (viz.) the array of elephants (of the adversary), with hundreds of bright-rayed lamps, (viz.) the swords (of his followers). (V. 13.) And again, when he was desirous of taking the island of Rêvatî, his great army with many bright banners, which had ascended the ramparts, as it was reflected in the water of the sea appeared like Varuṇa’s forces, quickly come there at once at his word (of command).
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