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you were indifferent to the Earth, Śrī was unsteady. When however you gave your love to the other, and she saw the Earth ( her-cowife ) respected in the harem of your encircling arms, this same Sri became as well-behaved as she ought to be and readily makes intimacy with the necklace ( on your breast ).
( 20 ) It is an ancient saying that whosoever is born grows and ages with doubtless result, and this state of things is unavoidable, such is the law ( of nature ). With this course of the world, however, this your Śrī, O King, is at variance : for how is it that though she is old and full-grown, yet the quality of youthfulness has not become impaired in her case ?
(21) Since you keep your thousand eyes hidden within, use the frown instead of the thunderbolt, and possess the body of a human being, who could know you to be 'Hari', if, O Maghavan, those heavy clouds, beneficent to the Earth and beloved of the Lord, splashing water in plenty on the ground of your territories, were not to proclaim you as such ?
(22) To say that you are the 'Protector of the Earth' is not a mere panegyrical phrase, but it is based on the respective quality : a 'Protector of the Earth' being he who lends the support of his breast to the troubled Earth. For when you were in ( your mother's ) womb, the Earth with all her wealth ( was divided among so many princes that it would have been difficult to state ) whose she was ( i.e., she was then troubled indeed, while ) now, since she is yours, new prosperity looks on this ( same ) Earth ( due to your protection ).
(23 ) ( If it is possible that ) the one hero out of a hundred persons is ( simultaneously also ) judicious in his maxims ( or, logical stand-points ), and if it is possible that he who is able to aim his arrows boldly, causing the enemies defeat, is also at the same time of far-sighted wisdom, then he should speak up who has heard of or seen in its completeness this duality ( of qualities ) in the “Ancestor', unless he were to point to you.
( 24 ) The lustre of the Sun is unequal in the two parts of the
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