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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF SOUTH KONKAN
TRANSLATION Success ! Om ! Obeisance to Siva ! ..(Verse 1). May that smile of Śiva afford you protection for a long time‒(the smile which appeared on his face) when he saw at the time of his tāṇḍava (dance) that the skull in his hand had collected the pearls dropping from cavities of the oyster-shells turned up from the heavenly Gaṅgā, whose stream was struck by the tip of the large toe of his mighty staff-like leg raised sportively, and that the skeleton on his body had marvellously come to life by the dripping of nectar from the moon in his matted hair !
..(V. 2). Wonderful is that vaṁśa (family)[8] of the Rāshṭrakūṭa lords, which is the ornamental mark of the race of Yadu−which, unlike the ordinary vaṁśa (bamboo), has not risen to power after destroying (other members of ) the family unlike the ordinary bamboo (vaṁṡa) which comes out after splitting the ground; which gives no shelter to drunkards as the bamboo does to the bees; which is never opposed to religion as the bamboo is curved by nature; which is never overwhelmed even by a crore of army-men as the bamboo can be bent by the (curved) tip of a stick; which is (never) terrified by the enemy as the bamboo is shaken by wind; which is not endless[9] as the bamboos are innumerable; which has not caused loss to its own original territory as the bamboo strikers roots deep into the ground; which, by its nature, takes pleasure in enjoyment as the bamboo is not thick by nature; (and) which never shows its back to the enemy in fighting as the bamboo falls down (on the ground).
..(V. 3). There was (first) the king Dantidurga; thereafter, there flourished his uncle
Kṛishṇarāja (I); after him, Gōvindarāja (II); he was followed be Nirupama (Dhruva),
and after him, Jagattuṅga (Gōvinda III). His son was Amōghavarsha (I), who was like
fire to the forest of his enemies; then Akālavarsha (Kṛishṇa II); then his grandson, the illus- [1] Metre : Salini.
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