Laghustavacarcastavau 5_403

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he devi ! jagatsarjanādikrīḍāśīle śrīvatsarājo nāmodayanāparābhidhaḥ kila
kauśāmbīnagare rājā kṣitibhujāṃ bhūpālānāṃ sāmānyamātre
mātraśabdo'vadhāraṇe sāmānya evānatyucce kule vaṃśe na tu
mūrdhābhiṣiktānāṃ kṣatriyāṇāṃ tasya māṇḍalikatvāt . kīdṛśe
kule'lpaparicchade alpe stokāḥ paricchadā gajāśvapaśudhanadhānyakṣetrādayo
yasmiṃstādṛśe jāto

O Goddess! O You whose nature is the play of creating the universe and so forth! It is well known that King Śrīvatsarāja—otherwise named Udayana—was a king in the city of Kauśāmbī, [born] in an ordinary (sāmānyamātra)—the word 'mātra' expresses limitation—in a merely ordinary, not very exalted, family, lineage, of kings (kṣitibhuj), meaning rulers of the earth; not among the consecrated kṣatriyas, because he was a feudatory ruler (māṇḍalika). In what kind of family? In one with modest possessions (alpaparicchade): one in which the possessions—elephants, horses, cattle, wealth, grain, fields, and so forth—were modest, scanty; born in such [a family],