292 SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS 



Otn. Glory to Siva. 



1. May that Achaleswara ever grant us good fortune through affection for mankind. 

 He is the Lord who dissolves the well-framed universe, whose body is free from illusion, 

 and whose but partially known essence, claims the praises of Brahma^ and the deities who 

 delight in mortification. 



2. May He ever abide with us, who carries in his lotus hand, the fifth head of 

 Brahma, torn from its station, and deriving beauty from the wounds inflicted by the formi- 

 dable talons of the victor, and who, in olden time, was born of a black and crimson hue, 

 of the universal form, as he offered his own body in his lotus throne, an oblation to fire, to 

 obtain dominion. 



3. May that Elephant-headed deity be propitious to you, upon the mountain of whose 

 projecting forehead, the clustering bees pay their devotions, murmuring their meditations in 

 low and indistinct song, and impatient of all other pursuit, as they forego their glossy 

 colour in the dews exuding from his temples. 



4. May that leap of Hanumdn over the sea, preserve you, which at a period, when 

 the end of the Kalpa had not arrived, agitated the universe, as if the end of all things was 

 at hand, the stability of the egg of Brahma was subverted, the sphere and sky were 

 about to fall together, and the earth trembled as if the crumbling mountains rent the yawn- 

 ing main. 



5. The liberal race of Guhila* high raised upon the foreheads of the princes of the 

 earth, adorned with all good qualities, gave lustre to the five regions,! and followed the path 

 of virtue through all its ramifications. 



6. In that race is the king and lord Ndrdyana ever honoured, and no wonder, therefore, 

 that it is illustrious, as by what other cause should it become the refuge of kings. J • — — 



* Guhila, or Gohal, is mentioned by Abulfazl (Ay. Ah. 2. 72. J as a race o^ Rajputs, it is 

 also one of the c\\iei Rajput tribes in Guzerat, (Macmurdo, Bombay Transactions vol. 1. 259.) 



\ Panchavihhushitasah, by whom the five Asas, or quarters, were adorned, but the most 

 usual number is Ten, not five, the points of the compass, with the intermediate bearings, aod the 

 Zenith and Nadir : possibly the four cardinal points and the Zenith are here intended. 



X The latter part of this verse is unintelligible. 



