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Siddhasena Divakara and Vikramaditya
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and which is showering down (on you) a veritable deluge of Fame103, sweeping aside the Renown of others, though the latter was won (by them) with trouble!
(6) Being abandoned by you in your fondness for pleasant words, though she was reclining trustingly on your breast, this uncounted royal Fortune. ( Rāja-Lakṣmī) is given away by you to various princes. Seeing this, your Fame got frightened, lest you, of inconsiderate mind as you are, might behave towards her in the same way therefore she has become immeasurable104 and transcends even the oceans, unrestrained by modesty !
( 7 ) He who covets Fortune ( Śrī ) must necessarily be particular to Qualities; but after she has become favourable; they need not be indulged at all any longer. How is it that you do not conform with this way of treating them, O King? (You have won over Śrī to such an extent that ) Mahendra and the others fondly obey your order. (Still you go on indulging your Qualities so excessively that ) measuring themselves with the Qualities of the former (and exulting in their own superiority), they have got out of control !
( 8 ) The Fame of the other rufers roams about in the ten directions, similar to the light of the moon. Your Fame, however, is not able to move even a step: is it because she is afraid, or is she too delicate? Oh, I know! It is not like that! The Fame of those kings walks incessantly because she is alarmed at the (length of the) path of hearing (which still lies before her ), while for your Fame (which is already spread all over the world) no space is left which she has not already covered (and where she could put down her foot ) !
(9) In this line of kings, there were other rulers, too, in the past who graciously stooped to those bowing before them and who uplifted royal dynasties in this very way. Yet never before ( was kindness carried so far by any of them that ) they would have suffered a gross humiliation like this present one (consisting in the fact that ) Śrī is playing at your breast, O King, ( though she is )
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