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whose brilliancy at the sunset appears coloured by the lotuses in this sea, rises in the east every morning with a saffron-bue giving beauty to the eastern horizon.
41. The enemies of king Allata being impotent to show their contempt (towards him) in battlefield treat the Bhilla women disrespectfully who describe his actions with pleasure in each of the mountains.
42. His son was Naravahana or Kubera, whose heart was much pleased with (his) friendship with the lord of Gauri (Sankara), whose pure swan-like fame sports in the beautiful Manasa (lake Manssa, and minds) of the three worlds, who is ready to defend his subjects, who is lord of all the undiminished treasures, who is powerful, who is served by holy men or yaklas, and who is the lord of the fortunes of the Gahila dynasty.
43. The horses of his army throwing up dust by their hoofs made the sea a mere pool of mud and filled it over again with the saliva from their mouths. He took up the profession of a preceptor to initiate the wives of his numerous. enemies into widowhood by destroying the multitude of his enemies with his ir resistible valour.
44. All his enemies, who related their own exploits behind his back to their wives when they sighed, fled away having lost all patience at his bare sight without even waiting for their family-members.
45. (Almost the whole of this sloka is lost.) 46. From him all-knowing Saktikumara like Saktikumara born of Sankara to destroy the demons who were lawless and great obstructors of religion.
47. He, the Ipdrn of this earth, deprived the Mahibhritas (kings and moun tains), who were his enemies, of their pakins (allies and wings) with his Kauseydmbholi (Vajra-like sword). They never regained their allies or wings even with the assistance of the gods, oceans, and elephants mad with rut.
48. He the bestower is considered by those who have gained their object to be Karna, by his valorous enemies to be Arjuna for his valour and strength, by the meritorious to be the ocean with respect to his patience and habits of living within bounds, and by the gods to be the mount Meru on account of his splendid glory.
49. Of him was born Amraprasad, the lord of the land of Medapāja, who was like the root of the creeper-like fame, as white and brilliant as a necklace of pearls spreading light in this world, full of fragrant properties (virtues known everywhere) and extending through the world, who was like Agastya in drying the difficult sea-like forces of his enemies, and who was well-known.
Aho! Shrutgyanam
