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N. Vasu-— Oat^vam Inscription of A?tafjpa-bhtmh II [No 4, 
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Om ! adoration to f iva! 
Verse 1. Hail to the Ocean, the sole lord of all the rivers, where 
the mount Mainaka is enjoying the pleasures of the paternal lap of the 
Himalayas, where even the lord of Laksini himself lives as ,a son-in-law 
in his father-in-law’s house, and who has undergone that process of 
churning as a svadhii sacrificp. 8 V ; ; , ; 
V. 2. From that ocean was born the moon, the wonder of all ej^es, 
the love for whose virtues procured him a place in the eye of Murari 
and on the crest of Purari. j ».* - h >' 
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V. 3. From the moon was born a race of kings, the blaming fire of 
whose prowess stopped the rutty streams on the foreheads of the 
elephants of their adversaries in the field of battle; swelled by the 
streams of their fame, the sea, heaved up, at every moment and thus 
enjoying the pleasures of the companionship of the heavenly ,river 
Mandakini, still displays those sports in wavy frolics. 
V. 4. In the line of these sovereigns of renown, the radiant halo 
of the person of Narahari incarnated itself as King Codagaijga, whose 
sword used to give deliverance to the hostile kings, when they turned, 
so to say, Sannyasins oh the banks of the sacred river, which flowed 
from the oozings of the elephants in fury of war. i 
V. 5. Who, in the battle-fields, used to clutch with the palm of 
his hands, first the locks of the goddess of fortune of his adversaries, 
and then his sword ; who first deprived the breasts of the wives of his 
enemies, of their pearls, and then deprived tbe temples oozipg juice of 
rut, of the unruly and maddened elephants, of their pearls. 
V. 6. When the hostile kings, frightened by the sharpened arrows 
of the leader of the noisy army obtained deliverance by his arrows 
it seemed, as if, to avenge their wrongs, these kings proud of their 
deliverance, were penetrating through the rCign of the sun which travels 
in the sky and which resembled the king in his fiery character. 
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1 Metre, Yasanta-tilaka. .. . • . , - 
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3 Svadlia means oblation offered to the Pitra or spirits pf (deceased ancestors. 
