Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c15.48

c15.48

"Sponsus Sebuasti (id est bonæ sortis) magnarum provinciarum Deus, regum potentissimorum rex, omnium equitatuum Dominus, magister et doctor loqui nescientium, trium Impp. Imperator, omnium quæ videt conquisitor, conquisitorum conseruator; quem octo mundi partes metuunt et formidant, exercituum Mahometicorum destructor, omnium provinciarum quas subegit dominus, spoliorum et opum Ceilanensium direptor, Eques, cui nemo par, et fortissimorum quorumque debellator, qui potentissimo bellatori Viraulalano cervices præscidit, dominus Orientis, Austri, Septentrionis, Occidentis et maris, elephantum venator, militari scientia innutritus, exercitus nobilis"—and he goes on to state that these titles were assumed by the wretched Veṅkaṭapati! Still earlier, Pratāparudra of Oruṅgal indulged in much the same boasting.