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28. Then did Vijaya-ninha (lit., Sinha preceded by the word) Vijaya), who was broad chested and slender in the waist, and who made the kings tremble (before him) by his lion-like) roar, kill his enemics who were like (S0 many) elephants.
29. Has the appearance of the Karnikára* been produced from the golden colour covered with the (red) cosmetics on the breasts of the rives of his enemies both removed by them in their widow-hood) on account of their separation from their husbands)? For, its flower fitly wenrs its redness inside and its yellow tinge outside- thus resembling the qualities of the cause.
30. The valiant king Ari-sinha then wrote on the regions of space the culogies of his own glory with the ink made out of the smoke (rising from the corpscs) of the hostile kings who were burnt by the fire of his majesty.
31. Oh! how wonderful the water created by this man, for while it supplied collyrium to the cyes of good men, washed it off from those of the wives of his foes.
32. Then from him descended king Chola whose lustre equalled that of the sun and whose foot-stool of gold was illumined by the great light of the gems on the heads of kings.
33. Then his son Vikrami-siyba (lit., "valour-lion,"), whose sword played upon the heads of elephants, and who was like death incarnate to his oponents, supplied (matter for) the history of his exploits against his foes.
34. Then did king Kshema-sinha, extirpating all seditious persons by the feat of his powerful arms, bring security on the earth.
35. The Fives of goblins, having drunk some blood, and maddenned, with their foot faltering under intoxication, give it to their husbands in skulls cmitting large quantity of blood; the goblins, in their turn having repeatedly drunk of the cup held in the hands of their delighted female companions, and being highly delighted, sing loudly his glories on the battle-field.
36. Of him was born the king of the name of Såmaṇta-sinha, all whose features were more beautiful than Cupid's, and who deprived his neighbouring monarchs (såmantas) of everything.
37. Then Kumara-sinha, recovering the lands which had gone to (=been takcu by) the enemy, once more gave them a (real) king and made his army, whose splendour had been dimmed (tarnished) by its separation from the
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Aho I Shrutgyanam
