1835.] the Temple of Harsha, in Shekdvatt. $71 



I. — To him who has effected the destruction of all obstacles, — who is 

 worshipped by the celestial gods, — who is to be adored even by Siva 

 herself [his female counterpart or energy], — whose birth is from 

 abstract essence alone, — the giver of religious devotion, of liberation 

 from worldly things, and perfection in what is of paramount and eternal 

 concernment, — to him I reverently bow, the granter of petitions, the 

 ever-blessed Siva. 



II. — May he who is thus praised even by the pure gods, their minds 



disturbed by his awful power the destroyer of the demon 



Tripura, protect you ! 



III. — He at whose dancing the earth bows, moved by the rapid 

 tread of his feet, though fixed to the hood of her supporting serpent, 

 and even the whole system of the world, though joined with its chief 

 guardians, the lords of the several regions of space, together with the 

 sun and moon, is displaced — he, under the name of Sri Harsha, 

 conquers all, the bestower of compassion on the universe. 



IV, — " The three-forked spear in thy left hand, the extended axe in 

 "thy right; thy heatl- dress the celestial Ganga' herself ; a serpent the 

 " necklace about thy blue throat ; never was so wondrous vesture as 

 " thine, O three-eyed one, seen any where by me." May Hara, who 

 smiling was thus addressed sportively by his fair consort Gauri', 

 protect you ! 



V. — May the river of heaven, fair as the moon, which agitated by 

 rains, pervades with her masses of waters in thousands of lines of 

 waves the region of the sun and planets, looking down even upon 

 the rapidly- flowing seas, — may she grant your petition, bearing gentle 

 sport, cricket-like, on the crest of the moon-crowned Siva, fast 

 bound with its shining horrid ornament [of clotted hair]. 



VI. — May he, by whose will the moveable universe with its varied 

 expanse of worlds, mountains, rivers, islands and oceans, all long 

 before made internally, yet germinant with adoration, with its lords, 

 the Pramathis [attendant deities of Siva], the most excellent Munies, 

 the Yaties, and other immortals ; — he, by whose will and active power, 

 this universe while yet non-existent, is produced, and by whom it is 

 destroyed ; may he, even Harsha-deva, the incomparable architect in 

 the fabrication of the worlds, protect you ! 



VII. — May Siva, crowned with the moon, the foe of Tripura, who 

 after consuming that demon with his fiery darts, when with joy spring- 

 ing thence, he was adored by the glad troops of liberated gods, Indra 

 and the rest, on this very mountain, was thence called Harsha or Joy, 

 the name both of this mountain peak, and of the country [adjacent,] 

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