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and becoming good-humoured, hand over the wealth of the deva. loka (heaven) to me. Why are you senselessly partial to Sudharmendra? Besides, it is an established usage that a female of & noble family will certainly follow her husband in the long run although she may have been well-protected for a prolonged period. However, 0 Purandara! You have enjoyed all this celes. tial wealth during my absence as a lord of deva-loka (heaven ), but if you respectfully fall down at my feet, I will forgive all your faults. Also, by the grace of obediance at my feet, may the gods ainuse themselves in their celestial abodes without caring for fear even in arcam In like manner, let the divine wealth joyfully rejoicing by association with a suitable husband, wilfully find a pleasant shelter in my chest. Or, why this much even! Let the entire three worlds subjugated in the enclosure of my poweríul arms, live peacefully without a suspicion of fear from hostile parties for ever. 0 Indra of gods! You salute me, before the fierce sphatika-ratna weapon capable of reducing your dladem to powder, falls on your head. Why do you bestow wilow-bood to Rambhā, Tilottamă, and other celestial females by having a fight with me without ascertaining the strength of your own arms? If ore adopts the path of justice from the beginning wise persons do not find fault with him, and he has co cause even of repentence if he is totally destroyed.” On hearing Camarindra taking irrelevently, enraged and with his ejus looking terrific and eye-brows knit high, also saying:-O highest peak of bad conduct! 0 shameless creature : 0 wicked asura! intent on frightening gods by evil doings. For be present, you are asking for things which are decidedly hard to obtain; otherwise, how can you possibly expect to come here? Ab' just as an elephant is killed by tusks and other members of an elephant's body; just as ine fragrant yak (bos grumlens) is killed on account of the beauty of the mass of her hairs; just as the musk-deer is killed for its musk; just as the sandal-tree is cut down on account of the fragrance of its wood, and just as siso, the blujanga (the cobra scake) is killed for the acqulsition of a phagã-ratna (a gem in the hood) of the snake, in the same
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