The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c44.3.3

c44.3.3

A panegyric upon the learned Lakuḷiśvara *pandita*, who spent some time in Baḷagāmve about A.D. 1036, and who made a grant to the Pañcha Liṅga temple, runs: "Having crossed over to the furthest shore of the ocean of logic and other sciences, to speakers a Rudra, a young lion in splitting the skull of the elephant speakers, a wild fire to the great forest speakers, a fierce and powerful tiger to evil speakers, a submarine fire to the Bauddha ocean, a thunderbolt to the Mīmāmsaka mountain, a saw for cutting down the Lōkāyata great tree, a great kite to the Sāṅkhya serpent, an axe to the tree Advaita speakers, a Trinētra in burning the Tripura Akalanka, displacer of Vādigharaṭṭa, a millstone to Mādhava-bhaṭṭa, breaker of the pride of Jñānānanda, a fierce fire of dissolution to Viśvānaḷa, a fire of the last day to Abhayachandra, a śarabha to the lion Vādibha, sealer up of the mouth of Vādirāja, displacer of Ayavādi, the sole able supporter of the Naiyāyikas, in maintaining his own side and in disgracing the other side an able Virinchi, an ornament to the speech goddess, at court a Padmāsana, in intelligence Nārāyaṇa, among declaimers Mahēśvara, in disputation like the river of the gods, in the sport of making commentaries a bee to the lotuses the minds of those who love it, his white fame his banner, of pure character, a noose of Yama to hostile proud pandits, to Digambara speakers a falling star, having the name Vādi-Rudraguṇa, Lakulīśvara-pandita,” etc.¹