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mountain for his maternal grandfather and does not possess 

 any paternal grandfather. May Hari, who lifts up the uni- 

 verse, and to whom, when he had assumed the shape of a boar, 

 the ocean became a pleasure-pond, increase your happiness. 



There is a water flower 2 which, not having its equal, arose 

 from the milky ocean, and which unwithered, Isvara placed 

 unsullied on his head. 



There grew a fruit from the penance of the earth, of extra- 

 ordinary sweetness, in the Yadu family, 3 of him (Candra) who 

 is a receptacle of agreeable smells. In his (Candra' s) vigorous 

 family arose a king Sangama by name ; the heavenly river 

 (Granges) shone like his path, whose glory was (like) that stream. 

 Among the sons of him who was a storehouse of all jewels 

 there was a sovereign prince BukkamaMpdla like the Kaustubha 

 gem among jewels. His (Bukkamahlpala's) and Gaurdm- 

 bika's son was Hariharesvara y who, endowed with excellent 

 qualities, was resplendent through the fulness of his glory like 

 a pearl necklace. The fourteen worlds were not sufficient 

 for the higher renown of his sixteen gifts, which renown 

 pervaded all the regions. His (Hariharesvara's) son was 

 Pratdjoadevardya, who, renowned on earth, became by his 

 virtues to his subjects like an embodied joy. By this hero 

 was wedded on the battle-field the goddess of fortune, the fire- 

 woodlike enemies being sacrificed in his firelike prowess. His 

 (Pratapadevaraya's) son, born from Hemdmbikd, was the hero 

 Vijayabhupdla, who knew all distinctive qualities, was a 

 storehouse of wisdom and excelled in modesty. This Yijaya- 

 bhupala guarded with his glory up to the sea the whole 

 Dravida country given to him by his father. 



There lived in the house of the king Bukka, iSnsim/iasuri of 

 the Harita family, a man of renowned reputation ; even the 

 parrots which were in the cages at the doors of this house 



2 Allusion to Candra, the moon. 



3 Santana (family) is also the name of one of the five trees of Indra's 

 heaven. 



