North Indian Inscriptions

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KARANBEL STONE INSCRIPTION OF JAYASIMHA

would not be very proper !” “ I do not ask you to give up your female form. Besides, it is impossible”. May Hara, who was thus perplexed in replying to his beloved, protect you!

(V. 4) May that Śambhu always grant your desired object!-(he) whose ornaments consist of (serpents) whose eyes are ears; who possesses the splendour of (the moon) that makes the lotuses bloom; devotion to whom makes people rejoice; on whose body alone there is rajas (ashes) (but no ṙajas¹ in his nature); and in whom there is changeless intelligence in carnate !

(V.5) May that Gajānana protect you !-(he) who possesses in the guise of his (curved) tusk, one half of the moon, which is other than that on the crown of the coiled matted hair of Dhūrajaṭi (i.e., Śiva) !

(V. 6) May Sarasvatī verily increase the learning of good people !-(she) who moves about in (all) the four (directions)², assumes four forms³ and is the cause of (the attainment of) the four objects (of human life )!

(V. 7) The Creator, by continuous meditation, produced a son who had no third (being, equal to him), (and) whom he designated Atri.⁴

(V. 8) From him there came to view (the Moon), the crest-jewel that adorns (Śiva), the lord of creatures; which is the sole repository of the prosperity of the whole world, (and) the tap-root of the pleasant and joyful sport of the mind of women; (and) whose rays cause the blooming of the assemblages of lotuses.

(V. 9) From him was born Budha even as knowledge is produced from a very pure mind. He procreated a very strong family of the kings who afforded freedom from fear to the (whole) world.

(V. 10) In the race of this treasure of digits (i.e. the Moon) there was a king named Arjuna, who, being endowed with a thousand arms, possessed prowess by night as by day; by uttering whose celebrated name, people even now find about them their desired objects.⁵

(V. 11) By the good fortune of beings are such supreme lords of the world born-only few (in number) and rarely-as those of this race who became the lords of princes, attaining ever-increasing prosperity.

(V. 12) In this race which became well-known by the name of Kalachuri through possession of various precious excellences, there was born, through the religious merit of the worlds, Yuvarājadēva II, who resembled Yayāti in good qualities.

(V. 13) Having conquered all regions and taken away the various kinds of wealth from kings, he, the mighty lord of the world, being filled with an and excess of intense devotion, presented them (all) to the holy Sōmēśvara.

(V. 14) By that lord of kings was begotten the unique wrestler of the world, Kōkalla (II) by name, who defied the arrows of (his) enemies. How many regions have not attained great splendour by his meritorious works, making one another beautiful in a thousand ways?
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refer to the skulls on his head as those of men, not of women, while Pārvatī purposely mistakes the words as meaning that she should say what she has got to say, in a male form.
¹ Rajas here means ‘passion’.
² Or, perhaps, in all the four kinds of creatures, viz., womb-born, egg-born, sprout-born and moisture-born. ³ Viʐ., Parā, Paśyantī, Madhyamā and Vaikharī.
⁴ There is a play on the name Atri which, in one case, is taken as a compound. The second member of the compound tri (three) stands here for tṛitīya (third).
⁵ Compare v. 7 of the Bhērā-Ghāṭ stone inscription of Narasiṁha (No. 60, above).
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