30t SANSCRIT INSCIIIPTI3NS • 



No. XVIII. A long and important inscription in the second temple of 

 Vastutala and Teja Pal a. 



1. I salute the goddess Saraswati, who pervades the minds of the learned, and is to be 

 attracted only by that intellect in which she takes up her abode. 



2. May that Siva, who sees all things in the twinkling of his eye, glowing with the fire 

 of wrath, alone to be appeased by consuming the body of Kama, be propitious to you, toge- 

 ther with the son of Siva (Gaiiesa).* 



3. There is a city named A?iahilla, the reservoir of happiness to the people, protected 

 by the ChuluJcyas, equal to Raghu, where the moon-like loveliness of the females irradiates 

 the dark half of the lunar revolution, and banishes the gloom of the fortnight. 



4. In that city was Chandapa, the gem of the Prdgvdta race, whose fame was as white 

 as the flower of the Jasmine, and by whose liberality the all-bestowing tree of heaven was 

 overcome ; the fruit of the maturity of his virtue.f 



5. His son was Chandapuasada, the golden pillar of the palace of his family, a wide 

 spreading banner of glory. 



6. Delighting the pious by the rays of his virtue, Soma was born from him, like the 

 moon rising from the depths of the friendly ocean of milk. 



7. From him was born Aswaraja, devoting his mind to undeviating faith in the 

 supreme deity, Jina ; his beloved queen was^KAMALA DeyI, like the consort of the enemy 

 of Tripura, the mother of Kumdra. 



8. The first son of these two was named Maw^rz Luniga, who, while yet a child, 

 obtained from fate an interview with Indra.% 



9. Who is reckoned by the learned, a councillor amongst those possessed of eminent 

 merits, and by whose chaffless intellect the wisdom of VriJiaspati was confounded. 



10. Sri Malla Deva, his next brother, who worshipped Malladeva,§ was an excellent 

 minister, whose well-governed understanding had no thought of the wealth or wives of others. 



* This is a singular invocation for a Jaina inscription ; see also the next inscription. 

 •}■ It appears from the Ins. No. 2, that Chandapa was one of the ministers, Mantrimandala 

 Khandais Chandapa Prathama Pumdn, of the Guzerat Princes of the same family. 

 X It may be inferred from this, that he was dead at the date of the inscription 

 § The 19th of the twenty-four Jinas. 



