Line on the stone.. 2 3 4. 5 6 7 पादन्यासावनुन्ना नमति वसुमती शेषभागावलग्ना ( tv . ) सव्ये शूलं त्रिशिखमपरे दोणि [तुंगः कुठारी] इत्यं गौयी प्रहसितहरः सस्मितः पातु युनान् ॥ (v.) वर्षैाडूतार्यंमादिग्रहृगगणतलं व्याश्रुवाना जलैाघे (VI. ) चंचत्त्वग्रेकृतान्तर्भुवननगकनीद्दीपसिं [धु* ] प्रपञ्चं (vII.) नूनं वाणामिदग्धत्रिपुरपुररिपु[जां*] तहषः सहर्षे I. To him who has effected the destruction of all obstacles,-who is worshipped by the celestial gods, who is to be adored even by Sivá herself [his female counterpart or energy],-whose birth is from abstract essence alone, the giver of religious devotion, of liberation from worldly things, and perfection in what is of paramount and eternal concernment, to him I reverently bow, the granter of petitions, the ever-blessed SIVA. II.-May he who is thus praised even by the pure gods, their minds disturbed by his awful power the destroyer of the demon III.--He at whose dancing the earth bows, moved by the rapid tread of his feet, though fixed to the hood of her supporting serpent, and even the whole system of the world, though joined with its chief guardians, the lords of the several regions of space, together with the sun and moon, is displaced-he, under the name of SRí HARSHA, conquers all, the bestower of compassion on the universe. IV." The three-forked spear in thy left hand, the extended axe in thy right; thy head-dress the celestial GANGA' herself; a serpent the "necklace about thy blue throat; never was so wondrous vesture as thine, O three-eyed one, seen any where by me." May HARA, who smiling was thus addressed sportively by his fair consort GAUri', protect you! V.-May the river of heaven, fair as the moon, which agitated by rains, pervades with her masses of waters in thousands of lines of waves the region of the sun and planets, looking down even upon the rapidly-flowing seas,—may she grant your petition, bearing gentle sport, cricket-like, on the crest of the moon-crowned SIVA, fast bound with its shining horrid ornament [of clotted hair]. VI.-May he, by whose will the moveable universe with its varied expanse of worlds, mountains, rivers, islands and oceans, all long before made internally, yet germinant with adoration, with its lords, the Pramathis [attendant deities of SIVA], the most excellent Munies, the Yaties, and other immortals ;-he, by whose will and active power, this universe while yet non-existent, is produced, and by whom it is destroyed; may he, even HARSHA-DEVA, the incomparable architect in the fabrication of the worlds, protect you! VII.-May SIVA, crowned with the moon, the foe of TRIPURA, who after consuming that demon with his fiery darts, when with joy springing thence, he was adored by the glad troops of liberated gods, Indra and the rest, on this very mountain, was thence called HARSHA or Joy, the name both of this mountain peak, and of the country [adjacent,] (Line.) योऽभून्नाम्नापि हर्षो गिरिशिखर भुवो भारतानुग्रहाय सोऽस्ताद्दा लिंगरूपो द्विगुणितभवनश्चंद्रमौलिः शिवात्मा ॥ (VIII.) 8 नईन्नेत्राघ[*नुन्ना ] तनुदहनरुचिप्लोषसंभ्भ्रान्तसत्त्वं प्रात्नज्वालावलीঢडुमबज्जलमहाधूमधूम्रायितासम् । 9 10 11 12 13 खारंभारंभभीमखनमसमशरोच्छेदि यस्याशशंके ( 1x. ) [* शंभुः] पुरधगध्यासे यमभ्भ्रंकषमस्तकः । कांगांगं मे निजं यं प्रवहति न शुभा नन्दकोद्यानलक्ष्मीः व्यष्टमूर्त्तियमध्यास्ते सिद्ध्यष्टकविभुः खयम् । ( xII.) एतत्खणीण्डकांतिप्रदरचनमहामण्डपाभोगभहं मेरोः पूढंगोपमानं सुघटितवृषसत्तेोरणद्वाररम्यं * व्याद्यः श्रीगूवकाख्याप्रथितनरपतिश्चाजमानान्वयेोऽभूत् श्रीमन्नागाद्यलोकप्रकरन्टपसभालब्धवीर प्रतिष्ठः । यस्य श्रीहर्षदेवे वरभवनमयी भातली कीर्त्तिमूर्त्ति पुत्रः श्रीचंद्रराजेोऽभ्ववदमलयशास्तस्य तीव्रप्रतापः for the benefit of BHARATA [or India universally],-may he be yours in the form of his phallic emblem, and with his mansion doubled. VIII.-Whose form, essentially illumined with the fiery light of the immense conflagration, that oft issues from the evil glance of his eye, audibly flashing, darkening even the bow of heaven with the multiplied dense smoke of trees consumed by that long-standing flame,and which, uttering a tremendous sound at the commencement of the fiery onset, destroyed even him of the incomparable arrows [CAMA or CUPID], and thus became a subject of doubt to the gods beholding it, whether his great periodical destruction of the universe was not perpetually repeated, even in this tranquil time. IX.-May this sacred mountain, possessed of the glory of the joy [above mentioned], and thence called Harsha, on which thus sat the eternal SAMBHU, destroyer of TRIPURA, with the breeze of heaven on his head, protect you! A hero speaks the following verse. X.-" May this mountain protect you, with pure and varied splendour resting on its peak as of reddened gold, which the beauty-ah, what, is not that beauty? of its pleasant gardens, brings delightfully to my ravished bodily sense ! Yet has this mount of SIVA no other transcendent and incomparable felicity, but this, that the eternal SAMBHU sat there: that is the paramount cause of its loveliness." XI. To that mountain on which the Eight-formed one, the Eternal endued with eight infinite perfections, chose to sit,—no one of equal excellence exists in the world. XII. This temple of the blessed HARSHA-DEVA, splendid by reason of its complement of open chapels around, whose structure is embellished with eggs of gold, delightful for the sweet yellow flowers appended to it, formed into garlands gathered for morning offerings; a temple vying in loftiness with the peak of MERU itself; adorned with a door and sacred porch, on which is a finely wrought effigy of the bull of SIVA; distinguished moreover, as the frequent resort of various celestial songsters-surpasses all others. XIII. THE first Prince was celebrated by the name of GU'VAKA, the blessed, of the CHÁHUMÁNA (or Chauhán) family, and obtained heroic eminency amidst the multitude of kings in the several worlds from the infernal world of the blessed Nágas upward: the earthly effigy of whose glory shines forth doubly in this excellent house erected to HARSHADEVA, and is celebrated by the most excellent of beings. XIV. His son was CHANDRA RAJA', the blessed, of glory pure as the sky, arrayed in fervid splendour. And his son was again a splendid king, 1 (Line.) तस्माच्छीचंदनोऽभूत्क्षितिपतिभयदतामरांशुः 14 15 16 सद हत्वा रुद्रेन भूयः समरस [ मुदये * ] लाभ्य [कीर्त्ति ] जयश्रीः ॥ (xv) ततः परमतेजखी सदा समरजित्वरः । (XVI.) येनादैन्यं खसैन्यं कथमपि दधता वाजिवष्गामुमुक्षु (xVII.) शूरस्येदं ॥ लोके यो हि महीतले ननु हरिश्चंद्रोपमो गीयते 17 [*हृत्वा ] तोमरनायकं सलवणं सैन्याधिपत्योद्धतं |