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conquered the east first. With the ground adorned with the trunks of many soldiers cut down, he crossed the south like another regent of the southern quarter (Yama). Making the ocean's shore bristle with soldiers' bones like oyster-shells, he conquered the west. A Mt. Mandara in strength, the cave in Vaitāḍhya having been opened easily, he entered the north part of Bharata to conquer the Mlecchas. With the surface of the ground spread with a mass of blood spurting up, he destroyed the Mlecchas there, like an elephant sugar-cane. Cakrabhṛt Subhuma gave the rank of lord of the Vidyadharas of the two rows on Mt. Vaitāḍhya to Meghanāda.
Death of Subhūma (108-110)
Having a life of sixty thousand years, roaming in every direction, killing soldiers, he subdued the six-part earth. Extirpating the living in this way, his soul always blazing with the fire of constant cruel meditation, Subhuma died in the course of time and went to the seventh hell. He was prince for five thousand years, king for the same time, spent five hundred years in conquest, and was cakrabhṛt for half a lac less five hundred years.
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