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The Adipurana
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Even though the enemy was obtained after a long time, he shone brightly. Just as fire, fueled by abundant fuel, blazes brightly, so too, Jayakumar, fueled by the wind of enthusiasm, was shining brightly after obtaining the enemy. ||221|| At that time, many kingly lions, seated on the peaks of the famous elephant-mountains, began to fight each other. ||222|| In that battle, two elephants, their tusks broken by each other's blows, were found dead, standing on each other's bases like two mountains. ||223|| The elephant-kings, covered with arrows from all sides, were shining in that battle, like moving mountains, filled with small bamboo groves. ||224|| Those who are generous, whose pride is overflowing, who are noble, who are tall, who are like Yama, and who are greater than all beings, why would such noble elephants not fight? ||225|| Just as deer flee in fear, so too, the elephant-kind, defeated from the very beginning, fled in fear, and by doing so, they crushed their own army. Therefore, it must be said that the bulk of those with cowardly hearts is to be condemned. ||226|| The powerful warriors were defeating the powerless with their weapons called "Shakti," and they were also defeating the powerful warriors who did not have the weapon called "Shakti," making them powerless. They were taking away their weapons called "Shakti" from those who had them but were themselves powerless. Therefore, the Acharya says that the lack of essential resources is to be condemned. ||227|| Those whose entire bodies are torn apart by weapons, whose eyes are closed, who have completely restrained their desire for battle, who have shown their prowess, who have tied their palyanka-asana with their minds, and who have abandoned all possessions, how many such