Chapter 25

It became twenty-four; [unresolved wording], the true meaning, this declared in scripture, [unresolved wording].

Likewise, for King Amogha you preserved the sound; for the faultless poem, the vowel sounds a and o of meaning are present.

To consider the fourteen chapters, having joined that victory, in the number of the unborn and beginningless one whose power is good conduct.

One does not move; having recited the one Brahman, the sound is the numeral one, nondual; being within him also, it is nāda.

The foremost itself, arisen within the infinite of that extent, becoming one, is the number three of the sacred teachings, the number of essential truth.

All honour, worship and sacrifice are a portion of the essence; the atom of Parabrahman protects all Karṇāṭa.

Becoming manifest within the pillar of letters: Ka, Hari, Śiva, attainment, tamas, rajas, and the origination of the three forms.

Substance, sequence, cause, vyavanyashiha; adorned with the path of innumerable branches of the Ṛgveda; skilled.

The inner secret of the fundamental seed-number is that sound; in numerical reckoning it is one; within the eight rasas, the common manifestation is one.

One god.

Glorious Padmaprabha.

That variety of forms.

Of the direction of sweetness, followed by an unrecoverable word.

Having understood the intention.

The peerless lord Padma.

A small portion of the praised leaf.

The splendour.

A bee dwelling in the lotus.

Siṅgiśāli, unperfected.

The vision of the essential self.

To the one who had combined, my earth.

The form of the highest world.

The beautiful form born from this.

Shone, great and auspicious.

The well-known connection of meanings.

Blessedness he obtains day by day.

He possessed cāmaras and the like.

Marvels, greatly exalted—

—in magnificence, the Jina.

[Unresolved opening] eminence.

Spreading, the spiritually receptive souls’ lotus—

—grove; the house [apparently continued in the next line].

[Unresolved continuation, possibly ‘his’] transformation.

Bringing about division or permutation [the remaining letters do not yield a reliable translation].

Lettered and unlettered expression [unrecovered phrase]; of those sentient souls [unrecovered word], all in detail.

[Opening unresolved]; utterance, palate, teeth and lips, throat; [ending unresolved]. The surviving wording does not support a complete literal translation.

[Unrecoverable opening] remove [possibly: a single support; unresolved connection; bliss of knowledge; of the body], sacred teaching [unresolved connection], a triad [unrecoverable ending].

Having drunk mother’s milk, for accomplishing aṇ and the rest, the instruction of the gāthā of these two letters.

The unequalled text is of eighteen languages of greatness possessing the qualities of these—Oṃ, Tat, and Sat.

Seven hundred attained letters; of all the lesser ones without letters, bearing designations such as mud.

Having thus composed all seven hundred and eighteen, it has victory in the dharma of not killing.

People who sing verses; among all living beings, of the count of the multitude that has gathered.

That which appears,

disrepute, to the great souls,

as it becomes distant, love,

the lotus of radiance.

The cause, this exalted one.

Of the one possessing pure consciousness.

The venerable friend.

The fear of worldly existence.

Having surpassed everything, [the remainder is unresolved].

All the new ones, [possibly: through the body].

The woman who shows.

The karma that followed.

The burden of the earth; the lotus.

[Unresolved expression]; Sarasvatī; set in motion [tentative, continuing into the next line].

[Continuation of the preceding word]; you [tentative]; [unresolved remainder].

Having attained liberation, [unresolved continuation].

The battle within the body.

Having removed it, he joins—the one intent upon the self.

To the one called thus, followed by the unresolved expression stāt.

Toward liberation, the mind.

Made new by Lakṣmī.

[An unrecoverable expression, possibly referring to karma.]

Sarasvatī [followed by an unrecoverable expression].

When he conquered those beginning with [the preceding unidentified term].

Multiplying within the process, beneficial to all, of the divine sound’s auspicious words this is the beautiful system.

There, the tongue also, the lip, the chest’s group of sinews, the breast, and movements of the throat: much activity.

It does not sound like a roar; all the differing listeners hear one and the same auspicious sound throughout all time.

Within, as glorious and auspicious instruction in the path concerning past and future, you dwell in the trumpet of the navel and give understanding.

Without the movement of the chest throbbing, [the divine sound is] undiminished and not excessive, [taking] the form of many and various syllables.

To all who speak within the palace, one victory; to you all, Oṃ, one oblation; those and these.

For everyone, one; nine itself is the numeral. When one is added to the total, the zero becomes hidden, and one is the same.

After hearing all, bhavyatva remains established there; your beginningless mithyatva does not hold good equally.

When it has been removed, telling everything is itself no sin; the manner of removing disturbance of the kingdom we [explain] here.

By calculation, the hosts of qualities

The hosts of qualities, counting

Counting, and lifespan, this

Much, O stainless soul.

The entire splendour.

All good qualities.

Among knowers of the Veda, now, all.

Siddhabhadra, fourteen.

Four; that great soul

having crushed the particles of impurity,

to shine with purity,

the destroyer of karma, the radiant one.

They themselves, like a distraught woman.

One released heedlessly.

Fallen, while coming.

The destroyed boundary of the land.

A connected meaning cannot be recovered reliably.

A connected meaning cannot be recovered reliably.

A connected meaning cannot be recovered reliably.

An unidentified fragment, followed by “ray” and an ending possibly involving “first”; their grammatical connection is unrecoverable.

There, an approach [the final fragment cannot be translated securely].

[The surviving wording does not support a reliable literal translation.]

A ray of the region of the sun.

In all verbal scripture or linguistic learning.

He will cause that gift to be released. O, it has become necessary indeed to conquer avalarūma; carry across and seize pride.

In fame, in the age, in that manner having bound the impetus of an array, give bodily nourishment, meritorious giver of boons.

[Unrecovered opening] the numerical form itself, to give, of the body, [unrecovered word], of bodies or embodied beings, [unrecovered expression possibly containing “form”], [unrecovered expression], conjunction or combination [ending unrecovered].

The deep sound, the pleasing voice, spoke of how lofty the Jina’s greatness is.

Without expenditure of effort, beneficial, and endowed with sound is the sage’s speech; without employing the throat, lips, and other such organs, the Jina speaks.

The divine utterance, a dense mass of speech, being devoid of mere vocal articulation, is not produced by breath; it arises without obstruction and is directed toward essential truth.

For human beings, all of that is perfectly clear, so that one oneself may understand the desired matters on one's own.

[It is] composed of the essence of speech, comprises all languages, and consists very much of many utterances.

Far and near; here; restraint; daṃlēna; having become victorious; kalāga; incomparable splendour.

In pride or intoxication, for a long time, [unrecoverable continuation].

The syllable Oṃ; a sacrificial offering.

[The supplied sequence does not permit a reliable literal translation.]

[Unidentified word ending], Vīra, play, essence.

[Unresolved preceding-word ending], as austerity, increasing.

[Completing ‘increasing’], for humans and gods, in this existence.

[Completing ‘in this existence’], four qualities, [beginning of an unresolved expression].

[Unresolved expression continued from the preceding line], the lord himself, the world.

The primordial teacher.

Acquired [the remaining wording is unrecoverable].

[Unrecoverable wording] the soul [unrecoverable fragment].

[Unrecoverable wording, possibly mentioning an assembly].

The underlying sense, followed by the unresolved expression bhacchaila.

Having a beginning, followed by jñā, possibly beginning the word for knowledge.

The unresolved continuation bhanta, followed by the order of numerals.

Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.

O lord, distress—

Remove it, O excellent lord.

It subsides in the night.

The water is lotus-like in appearance.

The overcoming of enmity; one's own—

With the mind also, by day contemplate—

The name of the lotus of standpoints—

In human embodiment, to everyone.

Also Baladeva, Nemi, all the cakrins, all those who do not wander, saying ‘pānādilisi’.

With delight, may it protect you; [unresolved ಭ] of supernatural powers, [unresolved ಗರವರಿ], of the conjunction, [unresolved ಎಷದವ], of the profound [unresolved ಧ].

Deep as the water-repository, the sea and the raincloud, the mantra of the wealth of the Jina’s qualities.

The profound sound joining in unison, for the whole body and mind to perceive—the profound resonance came outward, again to everyone.

When the bell is struck, the sound reaching to the end, constituting a right or wrong standpoint, brings fear and fearlessness.

The profound voice pouring forth; rejoicing, the gods, the people, those in the animal state of existence, the Vidyādharas and the Ahamīndras…

Having sat down, they listen patiently: through the influence of merit, all living creatures hear Ādijina’s instruction, thinking it meant for themselves.

To those who, desiring in their minds the mathematics of length and breadth and innumerable arrangements, had sat down.

He told the different meanings of reality through the sweet, resounding utterance of delightful divine sound.

All forms to insignificance,

having effaced, here,

for all who have come, into subjection,

the one who brings into that state.

Called a tender shoot of grace.

Of the manner of drama.

Sāṅgatya; Kāma.

In grace resembling Kāma.

The pure undertaking that has been joined.

Bringing under Jina’s control.

You; sahasrapa, an unresolved expression beginning with ‘thousand’.

A chapter on recitation; the remaining syllable trā is unresolved.

Born from the womb of a lotus.

Gomaṭeśvara’s utterance.

The venerable Ṭakapānayya.

Ṛṣabha, venerable, great.

Uśīnara, the virtuous.

Who feeds one with play.

Of the one possessing religious conduct.

To the lotus-footed ācārya.

Aaiḥśaṇakṣamat, the essence.

The essential nature, the command.

Pēmanuvina, equal.

Within the number, join Śrī.

Of the arhat’s teaching [unresolved expression], this [unresolved genitive expression], having come under control, compassion [unresolved ending].

Know that, being the essential reality of the soul through ten million other births, it brings peace; remove his hardness.

The conclusion of the song that has come down through the succession uttered by benevolent persons is, in truth, their given subject matter.

[Unresolved opening] of the number; pleasing [unresolved expression]; the nectar of knowledge for eating; the nectar of dharma exceeding wealth.

Feed the elixir’s sweetness [intervening wording unrecoverable]; the practice of gocarī, eating as a cow does.

The quality in which the disposition of pride has disappeared is present: the exceedingly gentle state of mārdava, through fear of the sky.

In the substantial form of the ranging intellect, as it is said, because purity exists, within itself eighteen …

With defectiveness gone, within the eye, all that is so called is through vision that causes one to attain the peace-giving good destiny itself.

Within the assembly, having become eloquent, the multitude’s divine utterance is indeed a graceful display of delightful words.

[Unresolved opening expression] the Bhūvalaya grove.

[Unresolved expression] brought down [unresolved expression].

Within [the preceding expression], the sense faculty, Māra.

[Unresolved expression apparently involving pride], young.

Unequalled, infinite, bowed to.

The ground or station.

Surpassing excellent kings.

One whose fame blazes brightly.

Being a newcomer on earth.

Of the subjects or creatures, [ಗಿರುವ unresolved].

[ವಿತಜ unresolved] became a remover.

[The sequence ಐಭೂವಲಥಞಾಸ್ cannot be translated securely.]

Lord Usaha, with boundless

extraordinary attainment through spiritual completeness,

in splendour,

could he still be untruthful.

Having shown, of the ocean of virtues.

The great soul who became a man.

Also continually unafflicted.

Here, a letter or syllable, followed by wording that cannot be securely recovered.

Him whose essence is knowledge.

Having joined with that metre.

Having grasped, a hymn of praise to equal him.

The company of good minds.

Through thought, offering honour, [rujmāvaṣaṣnva: meaning unrecoverable], set aside twenty of this new reckoning.

Among those concerned with numbers, they set down what is called a thousand: those numerals of the song, which has a beginning and no end.

May the mantra that removes fear of saṃsāra ever triumph—the Ṛṃ Hari mantra having twenty-seven permutations, O Śrīnivāsa.

Of venerable Lord Ṛṣabha, who appears like Madana, the thousand bliss-giving, exceptional glories are all thus.

Among them, the Kāmas coming in the succession of the series are nine, mighty and body-destroying.

Subtracting nine, with victory for Nārāyaṇa and all the other Vāsudevas: the account of what has a beginning and what is beginningless.

Why tell everything; of compassion, of what kind, having become a teacher—[the closing words ಸದರ್ಧಂಗನ ಎವೆತ್ತುನ ಅ cannot be reliably translated].

The prābhṛta is contained—the Jina’s speech—within the number seven hundred and eighteen.

With all the words of gentle-worded Kannada placed in reversal, the tree of language takes on lives.

[Unresolved wording] year.

[The wording cannot be translated reliably.]

The universe [unresolved continuation].

[Unresolved preceding fragment] pure vision.

The ocean’s numeral, gone.

[Unresolved expression: ದೆಚಾಗಿಈಸೆನು], declaring.

The twelve Aṅgas.

[Unresolved expressions: ಮಾದೃಕ್ಕಿ ಅಇಸ].

Sight, equal; the remaining expression cannot be securely translated.

An unrecovered expression, followed by “of the body.”

They were in the prison of the body.

An unresolved expression apparently ending with “number.”

You have abandoned him.

Speaking of strength.

In a contest of speech, possessed of gentleness.

There are people embodying uprightness.

[It] removes bondage; [ತ್ನು unresolved].

What if [it] exists; his [connection unresolved].

[ಟ unresolved], joining, one aṅka; [ರು unresolved].

[ಡಭಇಟತೀದಮಿ cannot be securely interpreted].

Thus, of Supārśva.

Upajāti; of ascetic conduct.

The community of sages.

The self of the pure-souled ones.

For the attainment of excellent qualities, the means is the manifestation of the divine, substance from the whole.

Within the excellent-coloured leśyā, radiance increased, shining; all embodied beings offer homage. Oṃ, Oṃ, exalted.

All eight light ones, of nine; the exceeding lordly splendour is not outside; always union in respect of quality.

Having shone and matured in the mind of the ra-group, it has become a pleasing branch of knowledge for all who read.

Uttering ‘Oṃ, homage—the five,’ when one understands the essence of the divine sound to be thus, know that it has the name aṅka.

When called Kannada, through the mirror whose form is jewel-like in every part, O bhavya, having obtained it, believe.

Within the lotus of flesh, I kindle the shining fire raised by knowledge, the fuel of the self.

Through immersion in union that burns away worldly existence, having removed all blameworthy activity, all [continued in the following line].

Auspicious blessing; to allay the mind’s pride, Pāṇḍava, you, having attained the status of āgama.

Of austerity; the Jina; of the deed.

An unrecoverable expression, followed by ‘to himself’.

The surviving letters do not support a recoverable literal meaning.

Within well-being, foremost.

Not passing away [atyantiti unresolved].

Instruction [qualified by the unresolved kamāsadāda].

[Dāryayamidhadanu: the wording does not support a reliable translation.]

It acquires meaning.

Which lotus of the Jina,

While being within it, endless

Manifestation by a man,

That itself is the extraordinary power of good medicine.

[Unresolved opening], rasa, intelligence [possibly beginning the word ṛddhi, continued in the next line].

[Possibly completing ṛddhi], one’s own purpose, of standpoints or their proponents.

Know the path of the body.

Towards the young companions.

Showing the ascetic’s path.

Illness and enjoyment.

Of an entirely perishable nature, however.

The siddha Usagahasena.

…ya, the human being born in the lineage.

To him, for support, here—

—will remain within the body.

The sweetness near the self.

By a standpoint or method, ease or pleasantness [unresolved: vnut rimāvata], by a form that effaces the manner of giving [unresolved: levi].

As though being the seed of the world, in the nine aesthetic flavours, itself becoming all, as though rejoicing, becoming equal, becoming mighty.

Before the eyes of the unfailing sage who takes pride in poetry, declare it as five cūlikās within the Aṅga.

Having spread in the form of water, the Jina pervades as Viṣṇu; they paid homage to the nature consisting of dharma.

The radiance of their beauty, going around the world, golden Bharata was called the lord of the kingdom.

Of Vyāsa, who understood the beauty of numbers and grasped all the letters of Śabdāgama, that very composition has come forth.

Of minute and great form, when called the glorious Karṇāṭa poem, though having the form of a patterned arrangement of many letters, it is one alone.

Of the earth, [unresolved phrase], spreading in every direction, they became manifest.

Having become Brahman, it is the commentary on all the Āgamas and pure Vedānta by the eminent ascetic Akalaṅka.

This intense affliction.

Its pacification—to Ṛṣabhanātha.

Thus he related this.

The teacher of that time.

The abode of a new form,

those belonging to it, having won over the worthy one,

whether they have ascended,

all the essence that exists.

The one so described, Supārśva.

The compassionate one, the sky-born one.

When he releases this noble person.

To the conquerors of fear, everything.

Without [an action or condition whose name is unclear].

Within meditation, unity.

The mechanism of the wandering ascetic.

On the path [the ending is unresolved].

O, without seeing the other world.

Of intensity, countless.

The bodily yogi’s death.

The path of accomplishment.

Within the fixed rule that is not abandoned,

conduct established by good people,

as it is, so life

is sustained in greater measure.

The elemental body having undergone wasting, the objects of the senses having perished through austerity—of the embodied, beloved Ṛṣabha and Vīra.

Saying that the body was headed toward destruction, he came without exertion and became Giridhāri.

The teachers named Aṅkamuraḷīdhara; Niccagayya; the son through the giving of the piccha, Gaṅga of the Kannada country.

[Unrecoverable opening] without increasing, everyone's soul [unrecoverable connective] of the venerable Vīra [unrecoverable remainder].

[Unrecoverable wording] Vīra [unrecoverable wording] meaning, poetry [unrecoverable wording] word or sound [unrecoverable wording] Bhūvalaya [unrecoverable wording].

[Unrecoverable opening] poem [unrecoverable wording], by the fire of meditation [unrecoverable wording], feet, tender [possibly Sukumāra].

Within the cakrin’s Vijayanta, undulating and becoming beautiful like the royal residence of the gods, that is the fluid of mercury.

When the wood-apple fruit is mixed, the four classes of gods, for the activity of the Tīrtha-lord of Vipulācala, bring about the entering of numbers.

The supreme soul of yoga, who imparted the indication of Abhidharma to Māgadha, gods and human beings.

[Unresolved opening], gods [unresolved continuation].

[The surviving wording does not support a reliable translation.]

[In an unresolved place], when dwelling for a long time—

They recognize [the unresolved plural object] [unresolved ending].

My body is repulsive.

Becoming in that manner.

That which is thoroughly full of putrefaction.

Severe austerity of that kind.

By the names Īśvara and Hara,

By the fire of meditation, dissolution

It brings about for sin,

All of it; peace.

The ācārya is he who maintains the monastic community.

They cherish steadfast affection.

Complete like the numeral nine.

The initial utterance of sacred Oṃ.

The wording does not support a recoverable literal translation.

Meditation [the grammatical continuation is unresolved].

[Unresolved wording] yoga; descend.

[Unresolved wording] beneficial [possibly followed by 'you'; the construction is unresolved].

Of the well-known meaning.

All the entire consideration.

The insurmountable condition of power.

The state of relinquishment.

Boon-bestowing splendour; within unfailing, pure knowledge, divine sound; of the petals of the heart-lotus.

For us to know that count, the immeasurable power of the Pūrvas and other scriptures comes into the world.

Bringing together celestial splendour, the arts, Āyurveda, and all the essence of ritual recitation—a thousand.

Medicine, life, humans’ mastu, flower nectar if obtained, rasa, gems, substances, end and beginning.

Specialized knowledge is the vision of the Jina: the lord of lords having a body of purity’s davana, compassion, the one whose face is the universe.

An excellent vision of siddharasa; for verbal learning there is no such lack of substance whatsoever; having liquefied, it reached the body.

For union with the maiden Mokṣa, union with women skilled in the arts of love is much satisfaction.

Only after learning the art of desire it had embraced, renunciation made use of attainment in worldly existence.

In the absence of qualities, having kindled fire, having immersed in sweetness, in delight you became the final one.

Pride, a shrine, battle, a bow.

[Unresolved ವಿಡಿಳೆ], a couch or seated posture.

[Unresolved ಯಮೀಬ and ಇವನರು].

[Unresolved ಹಿವಿತವ್ಯ], their …

The suitability to them.

Causal efficacy and observance.

The savoured sound of the ḍamaruga drum.

Not coming under death’s sway.

Among the auspicious ones, one seat.

Within that seat, [unresolved continuation].

Of the essence, one possessing sweetness.

[Unresolved opening], made poisonous, [unresolved continuation].

The venerable bearer of a liṅga or distinguishing mark.

Destroy Hara's number [the ending is unreadable].

[Unresolved fragment], essence, from vision.

[Unresolved fragment], one who is entirely complete.

He becomes vajhaiva.

Of the empire of dharma.

Without a lord or master.

The cry of living creatures; universal sovereignty.

Effecting sovereignty.

The embodied form; of Vāgīśvarī.

The path of the command.

He contemplates.

On making and writing, in the sun’s radiance, forget separation from a wife, O Pārtha; remember the six regions.

For the number of recollection, his compassion is for himself the experience of victory concerning the self.

Together with that, the Āryas fully knowing the attainment of earthly happiness, possessed of compassion, and knowing eighteen and three are infinite in number.

The metres of the groups of sounds; both; the radiance of Vajrakhecarī; of Diṭṭhivāda.

Pariyamma, Sutta, [unresolved expression], Bhūvalaya; the initial letters are eighteen.

Human speech is eighteenfold; divine sound belongs to the gods, Kāpiṣṭha and others, and the Vajrakhecaris.

Radiant, pure in all the senses, having a lion’s prowess, formidable, endowed with heroism and possessing tapa-ṛddhi, the supernatural power of austerity.

Mist is absent.

Of the pure true dharma.

A place of beauty.

The dharma qualified by the unresolved expression ಹತ್ಯಪಾ.

Splendour shining,

within meditative absorption, for the world,

he stands as the primordial one.

This is the whole set of numerals: eight, three, and six; all the numerals being thus, the numeral arising as the difference is the manifest numeral.

Twenty thousand seven hundred, a treasure, eighty-six—of the numerals, [unresolved verbal expression], the reckoning itself.