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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA kings. When the southern quarters had obtained him as (her) husband, she dropped her girdle (or she lost Kâñchi). (V. 15.)After that, when the eldest (brother) had gone to heaven, the middle one of them, who was called king Betta, being free from passions on account of (his religious) austerities (and) despising the desire for (worldly) pleasures, conferred the government, without any disturbances, on Tammusiddhi, though being the younger (brother). (V. 16.) Victorious is a certain living necklace of pearls, called Tammusiddha, an ornament to the earth for a very long time, which comes from a ridge of high mountains, which is well rounded, which has numerous windings of strings, which shows a fine gem in the centre, which has an elegant and pleasant form, (and which thus resembles the king, who is born in a family of great kings, who leads a virtuous life, who combines in himself a series of good qualities, who enjoys the dignity of a chief, and who has a handsome and graceful appearance). (V. 19.) And in the same year (viz. 1129) this (king Tammusiddhi) gave to him (i.e. the lost of Pâśipura) the village called Kaivaṇṭûr, to the delight of the merchants of his town. ___________________________ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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