inscriptions in the hassan district

232 Channarayapatna Taluq.
256
Date 1378 A. D.
(Nagari characters)
Obeisance to Ganadhipati. Praise of Sambhu. He who when drinking from
his mother's breasts lets fall from the corners of bis mouth two streams of
milk that look like a garland for her, the milky froth round his lips resembling
teeth,—the elephant-faced, may he grant pleasant good fortune to the three
worlds. He who, as if in sport, when the Earth as though from shame had
hidden herself in the ocean as if in a pond, lifted her up tenderly on his strong
right tusk, and placed her, whose breasts were swelling as the mountains, on the
couch of a lotus leaf,—the Boar, may he grant increase of wealth to the good
In the Lunar race was born Yadu, in whose line was descended Sangama.
He had five sons, like the five Pandavas, the eldest of whom was Harvapa,
who appointed his younger brother Bukka-Raja as Yuva-raja. The rut from
his elephants formed a stream as black as the Yamuna and filled the ocean,
which other rivers could not do, else how could rain clouds be so black?
Having received from him the wealth of the empire, Bukka-Raja in valour
aud glory eclipsed all past and future kings. When he was reigning, the earth
brought forth abundantly, all troubles ceased, the people were happy and
wealth increased. Having conquered all the world, he built a splendid city
called the city of victory (Vijayanagari). Its fort walls wore like arms
stretching out to ombrace Hemakuta. The points of the battlements like its
filaments, the suburbs like its blossom, the elephants like bees, the hills
reflected in the water of the moat like stems, — the whole city resembled the
lotus on which Lakshmi is ever seated. There, with the Tungabhadra as
his footstool, and Hemakuta as his throne, he was seated like Virupaksha for
the protection of the people of the earth. The dwelling-place of justice and
policy, an ornament to the-Lakshmi of victory of the kingdom, was Muddapadandanatha,
his minister, the refuge of those who did obeisance, (his farther
praises) Committing to him the burden of the world, the king Bukka remained
at ease like Vasudeva. The king Bukka's wife was Honnayi, in accomplishments
like the science of love, in wisdom like the vedas; and though the king possessed
many wives, she was the chief, and the fulfiller of his desires.
Then, like Hanhara, their son Hanhara was triumphant as a king.
Inheriting from his father the wealth of the kingdom, together with the
minister Mudda-daridadhipa, for the purpose of clearing away all darkness
(or evil), he as king was the cause of joy to all the people. Virupaksha
himself as the supreme deity of his family, Kriyasakty-acharya as his family
guru, and the minister able in protecting and punishing, did he inherit, along
with the same city. When the drums sounded for his advance on an expedition