Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t2.18

c5.s2.t2.18

⁴ Major Carr has given my transliteration of this inscription (in Nāgarī) on pp. 221-2; as, however, it is not quite correct, I give it again here. (I mark the half-çloka by ;, ).
1. Sambhavasthitisamhārakāraṇaṁ vītakāraṇaḥ; bhūyād atyantakāmāya jagatā(m) kāmamardanah |||
2. Amāyaç citramāyo 'sāv aguṇo guṇabhājanaḥ; save (?) nirantare jiyād ********
3. Yasyā 'ngushṭhabharākrāntaḥ kailāsaḥ sadaçānanaḥ; pātālam agaman ma * çrīnidhis ta * * * * * |||
4. Bhaktiprahveṇa manasā bhavam bhūshaṇalīlayā; doshṇā ča yo bhūm(au) * * jiyāt sa çrībharaç čiram |||
5. Atyantakāmo nṛipatir nirjitārātimanḍalaḥ; khyāto raṇajayaḥ çambhos tene 'dam veçma kāritam |||
6. * * * prāṇanishkaḷaḥ . . . . . vijayatā çaṅkarakāma (rda) naḥ |||
7. Rājarājo navaraçmaç čakravarttijanārddanaḥ; tārakādhipatiḥ svastho jayatāt taraṇāṅkuraḥ |||
8. Çrīmato 'tyantakāmasya dvishaddarpāpahāriṇaḥ; çrīnidheḥ kāmarājasya harārādhanasaṅginaḥ |||
9. Abhishekaǰalāpūrṇe čitraraktāmbujākare; āste viçāle sumukhaḥ çirassarasi çaṅkaraḥ |||
10. Tene 'dam kāritam çambho-(r bhavanaṁ bhūtaye bhuvaḥ kailāsa-)mandiračubham prajānām ishṭasiddhyartham 11 . . . . . shashṭi . . . . . çivam . . . . . yeshā(m) na vasati hṛidaye kupathagativimo—
12. xako rudraḥ ||| atyantakāmapallaveçvara çrī— See pl. 14 in Major Carr's Collection of Papers, and in Dr. Babington's article (Trans. R. A. S. ii.). The translation given by the last (pp. 266-7) and reprinted by Major Carr, is not satisfactory. For Major Carr's "known as Raṇajaya" (p. 224), "famed, victorious in battle" should be substituted. Line 10 is completed from the Šāluvaṅkuppam inscription. In Dr. Babington's transcript the last lines are mixed up.