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The forty-fourth chapter
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This battle between us must end today, for it will bring lasting infamy to both of us.
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The Chakravarti considers you the most worthy of his sons to rule. Would he not be pained by your injustice?
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I will bind all these wicked men, along with the Vidyadharas, who have betrayed the righteous path of the King Bharata, and deliver them to you this very moment.
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I request you to stay here for a moment, mounted on your elephant, for it is a disgrace for a great man to commit injustice, not to abandon it.
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Kumar, the greatest loss in this battle will be yours, for who, in their right mind, would strike their own soul with a sharp sword?
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Just as an unworthy being does not listen to the right Dharma, so too did Arka-kirti not heed Jayakumar's words and began to have his elephant attack Jayakumar's noble elephant.
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At that time, Jayakumar, who was highly skilled in elephant warfare, became very angry. With his victorious elephant, he struck Arka-kirti and the eight Chandra Vidyadharas with nine blows of his tusks, wounding them.
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The nine elephants of Arka-kirti and the eight Chandra Vidyadharas, enraged, were wounded by the nine blows of the victorious elephant's tusks and fell to the ground.
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When Jayakumar, desiring battle, surrounded Arka-kirti's army on all sides, it was as if the day itself was setting, protecting his life.
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He who surpasses the brilliance of the jasmine flower with his own radiance, who has withdrawn all his rays, who appears as if the arrows that Jayakumar had released against the Vidyadharas were all stained with their flowing blood and had entered his body, whose entire glory has been destroyed, who is cruel and displeasing to all eyes, that wicked one...
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