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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
MISCELLANEOUS Success ! Hail ! From the victorious camp fixed at Vijayapura─ In the family of the Chalukyas, the sons (i.e., descendants) of Hārīti, who are of the Mānavya gōtra and meditate on the feet of Svāmi Mahāsēna, which (family),6 like the great ocean, is stainless and extensive like the firmament clear on the advent of autumn ; which is made resplendent by the multitude of manifold excellences of the men (born in it), as the ocean is by the multitude of the rays of its gems; which is difficult to overcome, being the resort of men of great courage, as the ocean is difficult to cross, being the asylum of large animals ; which is endowed with serenity and is intent on observing the rules of moral conduct, as the ocean is deep and is determined to remain within its bounds, (there was) the illustrious Jayasimharāja whose fame was more (splendid) than a blue lotus7 under the rays of the moon in the expanse of the sky from which multitudes of waterladen clouds have disappeared. (Line 4) His son (was) the Vallabha, Raņavikrānta, the illustrious Buddhavar- marāja, who, like the sun, was ever-rising, had his brilliance undiminished both by night and by day, and destroyed his powerful foes, even as the sun dispels a mass of darkness.
(Line 5) His son, the illustrious Vijayarāja, ─who has on the earth no adversary
(worthy of him);8 whose fame has tasted the water of the four oceans; whose prowess equals 1 Read-
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