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Satyabhāmā's co-wife105 ( and out of courtesy, you refrain from asking her to go away, though her indiscreet behaviour must expose you to undesirable criticism )!
(10) Having seen Lakşmī, their companion of old, staying near you and being bereft ( of her company ) owing to her unwillingness to go ( away from you ), the good qualities of the other ( princes ) have in unison attached themselves to you. If thus, thinking that you have conquered the world by good qualities, you behave like a God, O Indra among men, a person of ( the requisite ) qualities ( viz., courage and truthfulness ) should state which of those qualities ( by which you conquered the world ), including intellect, are in fact yours (and which belong to the other princes)!
( 11 ) As a scent-elephant lures the bees away from the lotuses by his rut-fluid, so you win over the brave troops 106 of your enemies by your liberality : what wonder that rows of diadems worn by overlords of the earth carry only your order, O King ?
( 12 ) This Earth, though only one, was for many days the beloved of many. How kind-hearted those princes must have been, O King, thus sharing their happiness with one another ! Only you, selfish with jealousy, have now taken her on your lap (and claim her ) all for yourself, while the other (princes ), in whom your satisfaction produces good qualities ( viz. self-restraint, chastity and self-lessness ), only guard her like cow-herds !
(13) This very strange thing may happen to your enemies whom you think of with annoyance : lions become their householdcontrollers, panther and tiger cubs walk about in their pleasuregroves, wild elephants' calves water with their trunks the trees at the borders of their oblong garden-lakes, and buffaloes, heroes as it were, at the head of their troops represented by their herds, function as guards at their city gates in all directions !
( 14 ) Kings, proud of the swelling ( muscles ) of their arms which resemble iron-bars, behave like overlords of lords of beasts in utterly ( pun : to the very roots ) destroying the capital cities ( pun :
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