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yaḥ kulyaiḥ svai ātasa yasya puṁva tra sphuāradvaṁ kṣaḥ sphuṭoddhvaṁsita pravitata

yasya prajñānuṣaṅgocita-sukha-manasaḥ śāstra-tattvārttha-bharttuḥ stabdho hani nocchr̥ sat-kāvya-śrī-virauodhān budha-guṇita-guṇājñāhatān eva kr̥tvā vidval-loke ’vināśi sphuṭa-bahu-kavitā-kīrtti rājyaṁ bhunakti āryyaihīty upaguhya bhāva-piśunair utkarṇṇitai romabhiḥ sabhyeṣūcchvasiteṣu tulya-kula-ja-mlānānanodvīkṣitaḥ sneha-vyāluḷitena bāṣpa-guruṇā tattvekṣiṇā cakṣuṣā yaḥ pitrābhihito nirīkṣya nikhilāṁ pāhy evam urvvīm iti dr̥ṣṭvā karmmāṇy anekāny amanuja-sadr̥śāny adbhutodbhinna-harṣā bhāvair āsvādayantaḥ keciT vīryyottaptāś ca kecic charaṇam upagatā yasya vr̥tte praṇāme ’py artti saṁgrāmeṣu sva-bhuja-vijitā nityam uccāpakārāḥ śvaḥ śvo māna-pra toṣottuṅgaiḥ sphuṭa-bahu-rasa-sneha-phullair mmanobhiḥ paścāttāpaṁ va masya dviṣantaḥ Udvelodita-bāhu-vīryya-rabhasād ekena yena kṣaṇād unmūlyācyuta-nāgasena-g daṇḍair grāhayataiva kota-kulajaṁ puṣpāhvaye krīḍatā sūryyene taṭa dharmma-prācīra-bandhaḥ śaśi-kara-śucayaḥ kīrttayaḥ sapratānā vaiduṣyaṁ tattva-bhedi praśama uku y mut tārttham addhyeyaḥ sūkta-mārggaḥ kavi-mati-vibhavotsāraṇaṁ cāpi kāvyaṁ ko nu syād yo sya na syād guṇa Iti viduṣāṁ dhyāna-pātraṁ ya Ekaḥ

tasya vividha-samara-śatāvataraṇa-dakṣasya sva-bhuja-bala-parākkramaika-bandhoḥ parākkramāṅkasya paraśu-śara-śaṅku-śakti-prās-āsi-tomara- bhindipāla-nārāca-vaitastikādy-aneka-praharaṇa-virūḍhākula-vraṇa-śatāṅka-śobhā-samudayopacita-kāntatara-varṣmaṇaḥ kausalaka-mahendra-māhākāntāraka-vyāghrarāja-kaurāḷaka-maṇṭarāja-paiṣṭapuraka-mahendragiri-kauṭṭūraka-svāmidatt-airaṇḍapallaka-damana-kañceyaka-viṣṇugopāvamuktaka- nīlarāja-vaiṅgeyaka-hastivarmma-pālakkakograsena-daivarāṣṭraka-kubera-kausthalapuraka-dhanañjaya-prabhr̥ti-sarvva-dakṣiṇāpatha-rāja-grahaṇa-mokṣānugraha-janita-pratāponmiśra-māhābhāgyasya rudradeva-matila-nāgadatta-candravarmma-gaṇapatināga-nāgasen-ācyutanandi-balavarmmādy-anekāryyāvartta-rāja-prasabhoddharaṇodvr̥tta-prabhāva-mahataḥ paricārakīkr̥ta-sarvvāṭavika-rājasya samataṭa-ḍavāka-kāmarūpa-nepāla-karttr̥purādi-pratyanta-nr̥patibhir mmālavārjunāyana-yaudheya-mādrakābhīra-prārjuna-sanakānīka-kāka-kharaparikādibhiś ca sarvva-kara-dānājñā-karaṇa-praṇāmāgamana- paritoṣita-pracaṇḍa-śāsanasya Aneka-bhraṣṭa-rājyotsanna-rāja-vaṁśa-pratiṣṭhāpanodbhūta-nikhila-bhuvana-vicaraṇa-śrānta-yaśasaḥ daivaputra-ṣāhi-ṣāhānuṣāhi-śaka-muruṇḍaih saimhaḷakādibhiś ca sarvva-dvīpa-vāsibhir ātma-nivedana-kanyopāyana-dāna-garutmad-aṅka-svaviṣaya-bhukti-śāsana-yācanādy-upāya-sevā-kr̥ta-bāhu-vīryya-prasara-dharaṇi-bandhasya prithivyām apratirathasya sucarita-śatālaṅkr̥tāneka-guṇa-gaṇotsiktibhiś caraṇa-taḷa-pramr̥ṣṭānya-narapati-kīrtteḥ sāddhv-asādhūdaya-pralaya-hetu-puruṣasyācintyasya bhakty-avanati-mātra-grāhya-mr̥du-hr̥dayasyānukampāvato ’neka-go-śata-sahasra-pradāyinaḥ kr̥paṇa-dīnānāthātura-janoddharaṇa-sattra-dīkṣābhy-upagata-manasaḥ samiddhasya vigrahavato lokānugrahasya dhanada-varuṇendrāntaka-samasya sva-bhuja-bala-vijitāneka-narapati-vibhava-pratyarppaṇā-nitya-vyāpr̥tāyukta-puruṣasyaniśita-vidagdha-mati-gāndharvva-laḷitair vrīḍita-tridaśapatiguru-tumburu-nāradāder vvidvaj-janopajīvyāneka-kāvya-kkriyābhiḥ pratiṣṭhita-kavirāja-śabdasya sucira-stotavyānekādbhutodāra-caritasya lauka-samaya-kkriyānuvidhāna-mātra-mānuṣasya loka-dhāmno devasya mahārāja-śrī-gupta-prapautrasya mahārāja-śrī-ghaṭotkaca-pautrasya mahārājādhirāja-śrī-candragupta-putrasyalicchavi-dauhitrasya mahādevyāṁ kumāradevyām utphpannasya mahārājādhirāja-śrī-samudraguptasya sarvva-pr̥thivī-vijaya-janitodaya-vyāpta-nikhilāvanitalāṁ kīrttim itas tridaśa-pati-bhavana-gamanāvāpta-laḷita-sukha-vicaraṇām ācakṣāṇa Iva bhuvo bāhur ayam ucchritaḥ stambhaḥ

yasya|

pradāna-bhuja-vikkrama-praśama-śāstra-vākyodayair uparyyupari-sañcayocchritam aneka-mārggaṁ yaśaḥ punāti bhuvana-trayaṁ paśupater jjaṭāntar-guhā -nirodha-parimokṣa-śīghram iva pāṇḍu gāṅgaṁ payaḥ

etac ca kāvyam eṣām eva bhaṭṭāraka-pādānāṁ dāsasya samīpa-parisarppaṇānugrahonmīlita-mateḥ khādyaṭapākikasya mahā-daṇḍanāyaka-dhruvabhūti-putrasya sāndhivigrahika-kumārāmātya-mahā-daṇḍanāyaka-hariṣeṇasya sarvva-bhūta-hita-sukhāyāstu||

Anuṣṭhitaṁ ca parama-bhaṭṭāraka-pādānudhyātena mahā-daṇḍanāyaka-tilabhaṭṭakena|

First notice with lithograph, translation (by A. Troyer) and transcript (by Pt. Madhav Rao) in (212 says this text and translation was commenced by a brother of Lieutenant T. S. Burt, finished by a Munshi, revised by Burt and ultimately reduced by Prinsep). Improved transcript in , rudimentary genealogy in . New lithograph (by Edward Smith) and improved transcript and translation in (translation republished in 233). Further improvement in a paper presented to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1970 by Bhau Daji (apparently never published); also . Re-edited with more improvements in . Revised yet again in 88-91 and discussed ibid:31-45. Further discussion: .

Originally encoded for Siddham in the project Beyond Boundaries (Grant Agreement No. 609823) by Dániel Balogh (IN00001). Encoding updated to DHARMA conventions by Dániel Balogh.

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