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fice *, who is an universal soul, to be apprehended only 

 by contemplation of saints ; and who pervades all. 



2. * Salxitacion to the unborn God ^5 who makes 

 the world's production, its continuance, and ultimate 

 destruction ; and the recollection of whom serves as a 

 vessel of transport across the ocean of mundane ills. 



3. ^ Salutation be to the husband of Lacshmi ; 

 to him who reposes on Se'sha as on a couch ; to him 

 who is Vishnu extracting the thorns of the three 

 worlds ; to him who appears in every shape J. 



4. *SALUTATio2f be to the blessed foot of Pa'r- 

 vATf^, which destroyed the demon Mahjsha, by 

 whom all had been overcome ; and which gives felicity 

 to the world. 



5. 'Surrounded by groves of lofty canes |I, in- 

 accessible through the range of edifices on the hill's 

 summit encompassed by a deep ditch in which foun- 

 tains spring, secure by impassable defence from 

 6. dread of foes, a royal abode there is named Vijeya- 

 fura *♦, which is situated on the declivity of the 



• Siva, manifested in eight material Ibrins : viz. Earth, Water* 

 Fire, Air, Ether, the Sun, the Moon, and the person who per- 

 forms a sacrifice. 



t Brahma the creator, himself not created, and therefore 

 termed unborn. 



X Vishnu, who reposes on the serpent Jnanta or Scsha ; and who 

 has been incarnate in various shapes to relieve the world from op- 

 pressors. 



§ Bhawani or DuRGA slew Mahisha^ura. The legend is well 

 known. 



I) Bamboos (Bambnsa Arundinacea and other species). 



•• The place here described may be Vijey-pur, on the northern 

 declivity ol" the Vttid'hya hills, a few n)iie3 from the temple of 

 I'ind' hyd-vasini near Mirzapur on the Ganges. It is the ancient 

 residence of a family, which claims descent from the former sove*- 

 reigns of enares ; and is still the abode of the head of that familv. 

 But the terms of the text, Uitarcgtri caUice, rather seem to signity 

 • declivity of ihe northern mountain,' than * northern declivity of 

 the mountain j' and that interpretation points to the range of snowy 

 j^^ounta'ns, instead of Vind'hya which is reckoned a tropical rapgf^ 



