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Physician for the diseases inspired by the odour of learning, from whom descended the 

 Mumswara Vijaya Sena. 



71. The vessel of the benedictions of this sage, is Udaya-Prabha Sfiar, as the 

 light of the ocean, is communicated to the scattered pearls. 



72. May this holy place and its founder be renowned as long as the mountain Arbuda 

 uprears its head. 



73. Sri Soma Deva, by whom the feet of the Cliululcya Monarch are honoured, com- 

 posed this resplendent panegyric on this holy place. 



74. May this euloguim of the race of Vastupala, be propitious through the favor 

 of the mother of Neminatha. This eulogy was engraved by the artist Chandesvvara, 

 the son of Dhandhala, the son of Kihlana, and the consecration was performed by 

 Vijaya Sena Sori, on the mountuiii Arhuda, on Sunday the third of the light fortnight 

 of Phalgun, in the year of Vikrama 1287, (A. D. 1231). 



No. XIX. Is another long inacriptlon, in the same temple, of the like 

 date (Samvat 1287J as the last. It particularises also the same persons as 

 contemporaries, defining their stations more precisely. 



The Mahd Rdjddhirajy or Supreme Monarch, is Bhima Deva. Soma 

 SiNHA, is a Mahd Mandaleswara, a governor, or feudatory, probably, and 

 ViRADHAVALA, with the title Rdnaka, or Rdna, is another. The Mudrd Vyd- 

 pari, the keeper of the Seals literally, meaning the Minister, is as in the pre- 

 ceding, Tejapala, by whom it is recorded, that a Chaitya, or Jaina tem- 

 ple and convent,* dedicated to Neminatha, were erected and endowed on 

 Arbuda mountain, and named after his brother Luniga Sahika. 



The inscription then proceeds to specify the persons to whom, and to 

 whose descendants certain privileges are to be attached. The posterity 



* Or perhaps a groupe of temples ; see the following. 

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