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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR KOSGAIN STONE INSCRIPTION (NO.I) OF VAHARA
Success! Adoration to holy Gaṇēśa ! (Verse 1) While (Gaṇēśa) was sporting on the pleasure-mount, namely, the mountainlike breast of Pārvatī, the ocean, together with its family, became an ornament in the box which was his trunk. The whole spot on (his) expansive frontal globe became, lo! free from dust!⁸ May the pot-bellied (Gaṇēśa), who, a child as he is, follows his own inclination, protect you! (V. 2) May that great god, the holy half-moon-crested (Śiva), protect us!--(he) who, at the time of (Pārvatī's) embrace, showed that his eyes had a plunge into the ocean of joy; who, through love, was looked at timidly and smilingly by the newly-wedded goddess (Pārvatī); (and) to whom she is the highest deity who favours her devotee! (V. 3) May that Durgā for a long time save the world from harm!-(she) who, being beneficial to the three worlds, was pleased by continuous excellent worship, (offerings of) groups of beasts increasing (in number daily) by one, various (kinds) of food and fruits day after day during (the period of ) nine nights⁹ and at once favoured the king Vāhara! (V. 4) From the churning of the milky ocean by gods and demons there was produced the cool-rayed (Moon), the uterine (brother) of the celestial tree and others, who allays the heat of the three worlds. Being perfectly round and complete, and collecting all gods round him by his digits, he has become an ornament, a crest-jewel, of the omniscient (Śiva). (V. 5) In his family was born the lord of the earth, Haihaya, the fire of valour
incarnate, and after him the wise king Arjuna, the illustrious son of Kṛitavīrya, who was a 1 Metre: Śārdūlavikrīḍita.
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