304. SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS 



23. Of which two able brothers, employed as hands in the cooking of virtue, neither 

 was the left. 



24. By this pair the whole world has been impressed with virtue, and the iniq^uitous 

 Kali age been trodden under foot. 



25. Again. A distinguished scion of the branch of Chaulukya heroes was Arna, an 

 illustrious Prince. 



26. After him, with uninterrupted radiance Lavanaprasada, his enemies being 

 broken, obtained the earth, and his fame having traversed the salt ocean, shone as white as 

 the lucid shell, that gems the river of heaven. 



27. The son of the Prince the descendant of Kakutsth A, Dasaratha, was VfRA- 

 DHAVALA, whose power swallowed up the hostile Princes of the earth, in the current of whose 

 fame the fortune of those females, whose minds were agitated with passion, was drowned at 

 the period of improper assignation. 



98. The eminent Chaulukya, Viradhavala admitted not in his ear the reports 

 of informers affecting these two ministei's ; by whom the dominion of their lord was 

 irradiated with prosperity, and the courts of the palace were crowded with elephants 

 and steeds. 



29. By this couple of ministers placed at his knees, I well know, that this Prince 

 holds prosperity as with his two arms in delightful embrace again. 



30. This mountain, Arbuda, the Peak of clustered Hills, is the progeny of the father- 

 in-law of the bridegroom of Gaziri, the brother-in-law of Sasibhrif, who bears the 

 MandaJdni as an ornament in the thick and tanfjled tresses of his head. 



31. In this mountain, if the ascetic, desirous of emancipation, behold the lovely dam- 

 sel wandering, he yields his heart to passion ; but those minds which are agitated with de-? 

 sire, forego their wordly propensities when they observe these holy shrines, reverenced by 

 the sages. 



32. On a certain time, from the holy fire-altar of the excellent Vasishtha*, a man 

 arose, whose form was more resplendant than the rays of the son of Mrikanda. 



* Inscription No. II. says Maiirdvaruni or Agasfya, but, accordiFig to one legend, they are 

 the same. Vasishtha perishing by a curse of Nimi, and being re-born of 3Iiird and VarunOf or as 

 Maitrdvaruna. Bhdgavat Ch. 9th. . 



