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The Forty-Fourth Chapter
411. This duel between us must end today, for it will bring lasting infamy to both of us.
246. The Chakravarti considers you the most worthy of his sons to rule. Would he not be pained by your injustice?
250. I will bind all of you, these wicked men, along with the Vidyadharas, and deliver you to Bharat Maharaj, the upholder of justice, this very moment.
251. I beseech you to stay here for a moment, mounted on your elephant. For a great man to commit injustice is to be scorned, but to abandon injustice is not scorn.
252. Kumar, it is you who will suffer the greatest loss in this battle. Who, in their right mind, would strike their own soul with a sharp blade?
253. Just as an Abhavy being does not listen to the right Dharma, so too did Arkakirti not heed Jayakumar's words and began to have his elephant attack Jayakumar's noble elephant.
254. At that time, Jayakumar, skilled in elephant warfare, became enraged. With nine strikes of his victorious elephant's tusks, he wounded Arkakirti and the eight Chandra Vidyadharas and their nine elephants.
255. The nine elephants of Arkakirti and the eight Chandra Vidyadharas, enraged, were wounded by the nine strikes of the Vijayartha elephant's tusks and fell to the ground.
256. As Jayakumar, eager for battle, surrounded Arkakirti's army on all sides, the day, as if protecting his life, set.
257. He who surpasses the radiance of the jasmine flower in his brilliance, who has withdrawn all his rays, who appears as if all the arrows Jayakumar had released against the Vidyadharas were stained with their flowing blood and had entered his body, whose entire glory has been extinguished, who is cruel and displeasing to all eyes, that wicked...