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would not give without being asked, where the lord Indra is master of only one cow; where the meritorious become very humble in speech when their merits are exhausted; where the Senani is Vipakshasangati (has for his conveyance a peacock); where the horse is Uchchaisśravá (with ears erect); and where the garden contains only a few trees.
13. His son was Humira a great hero, who was a brave man; who was of truthful and endearing speech; whose splendour was great; who was the crest of his family; who rivalled the gravity of the jewel-topped mountain (Meru 7): who was a great conqueror; whose body surpassed (in beauty) the known beauty. of Kimadeva; who was Achyuta for having Lakshmi in his place; who was Brahma for having Sarasvati with him; who was Ugrarupa (Sankara) for burning the families of his foes.
14. Hamira who performed glorious deeda made Surya and Indra fearful when they heard it rumoured that he intended to make gifts of one thousand Go (cows, rays, or eyes). (But) on being told by Vishnu privately and frequently that he was making gifts of one thousand cows, (and not of rays nor of eyes) both of them went to see with great delight the gifts made.
15. When he heard from the people that Hamira would surpass king Karana and others in making conquest in all directions, would exact fines, would drive away death, and would then make gift of Dakshina (gifts of money, the south), Yamaraja was afraid that he would be defeated and deprived of his Dakshins (the south) to make a gift of it. So as long as he (Hamira) ruled over the earth neither he (Yama) nor his messenger was able to look at his subjects.
16. He cansed to be made a temple where the gods reside and which is surmounted with golden pinnacles; and also caused to be dug a lake as large as a sea surrounded by gardens of mango-trees..
17. The creeper-like sword destroying elephants in its sweep and uncovered in the battle-field, clinging round the tree of hand giving a fine shade, nourished with the water of blood, sparkling and greatly known for its brilliancy, produces a very large flower (of glory) worthy of being known to the ends of all direc
tions.
18. King Hamira is such a hero as does not lose his patience on the pleasure-ground of battle-field, whose sweetness of speech puts into shade that of the peacock and the parrot; who, being like a diamond, gives beauty to other kings; and who has made the sea-coast appear charming by making gardena on it.
19. The sword in his hand is like the destroyer in the form of a black female-snake, which lives upon the wind of the lives of enemies; which
• It being the abode of Yama,
Aho! Shrutgyanam
