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No. 55. Po-Nagar Temple Inscription of Jaya Parameśvaravarman I, dated 972 Śaka
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The inscription was edited by M. Bergaigne (Corpus No. XXIX, p. 270). The inscription is engraved on the right door-pillar of the temple of Po-Nagar to the left. It contains thirteen lines of writing. The language is Sanskrit. There are three verses at the beginning followed by a prose text (metre being v. 1, Sragdharā; v. 2, Śārdūlavikrīḍita; v. 3, Anuṣṭubh).
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The inscription records the donations of king Śrī Parameśvara to the ‘divinity of Yapu-Nagara’ i. e., an image representing Śiva and his spouse Gaurī united in a single body. It is dated in 972 śaka (= 1050 A. D.).
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स्वस्ति ।
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I. भूताभूतेशभूता भुवि भवविभवोद्भाववात्माभवा भावाभावास्वभावा भवभवकभवाभाववैकभावा । भावाभावाग्रशक्तिः शशिमकुटतनोर्धकाया सुकाया काये कायेशकाया भगवति नमतो नो जयेव स्वसिद्ध्या ॥
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II. सारासारविवेचनस्फुटमना मान्यो मनोन्न्दनः पापापापभयप्रियः प्रियकरः कीर्त्यर्ज्जनेकोद्यमः । लोकालोकिकलौ कलौ सतिसतस्त्रातुं भवद्भाविनो भावोद्भावसुभावसद्गुणगणैर्धर्मं तनोत्येव यः ॥
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III. वेलाद्रि नवमे द्मेशः श्रीद्धः श्रीपरमेश्वरः । स्वर्णविद्धघटन् तस्याः स्थापयेत् स्थानकस्थले ॥
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इदन्तु पूजार्थमुत्तमं मकुटभूषणमेकं विचित्ररशनागुण एकः रूप्यमयभृङ्गार एकः मयूरच्छत्रमेकं पृथुरजतवितानमेकमे- तत् सर्वं कलधौतमयैः सुकलशाग्द्वालभाजनपृथुभाजनैः साकन् तेनास्यै प्रहितमिति ॥
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TRANSLATION.
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I. “Thou art, O my goddess, the lord of what was and what was not; thou art, in real nature, the cause of the origin, continuity and development of this world; thou hast in thy nature both positive and negative aspects; thou art in thy very essence at one with whatever is in the world of God during its creation as well as in its dissolution; thou art the primordial energy of the existent and the non-existent; thou hast as body, half of that which has moon as its diadem (i. e. Mahādeva); thou art of beautiful appearance and form part of the body of the lord of embodied beings. May we triumph by our own success.”—so saying the two (?) (donor and his wife) bow down.
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II. He, whose intelligence is matured by the discrimination between what is real and substantial and what is not; who is worthy of regard; who is pleasing to the hearts of others; who loves those who are timid as to what is vice and what is not; who does good to others; who has acquisition of glory as the only object of his energy; who makes the law prevail in the world by means of many, inherently excellent, good qualities which have their origin in his own nature, in order to protect good persons, both born and unborn, in the Kali age when there is going on a struggle between the pious and the vicious.¹
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¹ The text has ‘lokāloki’ but the ‘i’kāra is unintelligible.
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III. He, King Śrī Parameśvara, shining in his prosperity, has placed in her sanctuary a vase inlaid with gold in the Śaka year denoted by ‘velā-adri-nava’ (972).
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And he has given to that goddess for her worship: an excellent diadem, a variegated waist-band, a silver vase, an umbrella decorated with peacock feathers, a vast silver canopy, together with golden vases viz. excellent pitchers, and four small and big vases.