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Thirty-first Chapter
The glorious one, eager to conquer the Kuberimath, set out with an army of many horses, halting the directions. ||1|| Those who knew the nature of horses recognized their gait as Dhourit, their strength as Utsah, their training as Laghav, and their breed from their bodily features. ||2|| Dhourit is the skill of movement, Utsah is the prowess, training is the humility, and the radiance of the hair is the quality of the body. ||3|| The horses, eager to reach the front, were moving very fast, as if they wanted to overtake their hindquarters with their forequarters. ||4|| Many great horses, displaying their prowess, were moving on the path, as if fearing that the dust raised by their hooves might touch their own bodies. ||5|| Some horses could not bear to have their shadow move with them, so they were breaking it with their hooves, but the shadow, being subtle, was not hindered in any way. ||6|| Some horses seemed to be dancing on the earth, as if they were performing a dance with the sound of drums and other instruments at the beginning of their movement. ||7|| The horses, whose nature and prowess were steady, were restless only in their movement, as they were digging the earth with their moving hooves. ||8|| The number of horses belonging to the Chakravarti, who were swift as the wind, of the best breed, and fit for the task, was eighteen crore. ||9|| The river, which has stopped the forests on its banks, which has filled the earth on its banks with its currents, is flowing towards the opposite direction of the Sindhu river. ||10||