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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR SARKHO PLATES OF RATNADEVA II : YEAR 880 (V. 9) (His wife) named Nōnallā was dear to him as valour is to a brave person. Their son was Pṛithvīdēva (I), the best of kings. (V. 10) The son of the queen Rājallā, begotten by Pṛithvīdēva (I), was the brave king Jājalladēva (I), the wish-fulfilling tree, bearing the fruit of fortune, which yielded their desired objects to good people,-(he) who was wont to worship all gods; who was (annoying like) a thorn to his fierce foes, and the god of love incarnate to the extremely lovely ladies who saw him. (V. 11) His son was the illustrious Ratnadēva (II), a treasure on earth to those who served him; whose lovely form was an ornament of the whole Kōsala country; who snatched away the fortune of all kings; and whose feet were served by the heads of all kings. (V. 12) In the midst of Ilāvarta and other countries (the country of ) Bhārata is the best. There also Madhyadēśa is the best where there is that (well-known) Sōṇabhadra (V. 13) There was (a man) born in the family of the twice-born known by the name of Mahasōṇa, who sprang from the Vatsa gōtra, had five pravaras and emigrated from the famous Sōṇabhadra. (V. 14) He was proficient in the group of six systems of philosophy and arts, knew, like Brahmā, all the Vēdas and Āgamas, and was always respected by all people. Being skilled and conversant with the settled doctrines of the Vēdānta (system), he obtained liberation of life after fasting for fifty days at the holy place (called) Jāmbavat at the time of death. (V. 15) His son was Sōmēśvara, well-known in the world-(he) who was a trea- sure of wisdom (and) the foremost among all persons versed in the Vēdas; whose intellect was purified by the performance of various sacrifices and whose glory was an ornament to the Brāhmaṇa community. .
(V. 16) Thereafter there was his son Kulachandra, whose character was in conformity with (his) sacred learning, who was conversant with the principles of the Āgamas; who appeared like (the sage) Vyāsa among the people, having an infinite collection of excellences, and who was able to curse or favour (people as he liked) here in (this) world. (V. 17) A son of him, who was possessed of all excellences and had a holy nature, was the intelligent and illustrious Padmanābha, who is an auspicious abode of wisdom ; whose study of all Āgamas causes wonder; who is virtuous by nature, adept in the religious duty, namely, the performance of sacrifices, and proficient in astronomy; and whose mind has become pure by (his) repeated meditation on Brahman. (V. 18) He knows two Siddhāntas, has crossed the ocean of astrology, and being versed in the tenets of the Saṁhitās, and sacred writings, is like Varāhamihira (V. 19) He,-declaring in the assembly of the illustrious king Ratnadēva [II], in the presence of all astronomers that when the Year eight hundred increased by eighty had passed, on the day of the lord of speech (i.e., Thursday), on the full-moon day of Kārttika, during the third quarter of the night when (the moon would be in) the constellation of Rōhiṇī, there would be a complete eclipse of the moon,-crossed the river of assertion. (V. 20) Then releasing the moon (from the eclipse), the king, who was pleased, gave him as a grant the village Chiñchātalāī in the maṇḍala of Anarghavallī together with all taxes. (Here follow fourteen benedictive and imprecatory verses.)
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