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SOLANKI DYNASTY.
Let the Kalpa-Turu (the tree of Gods) and the Kamadhenu fulfil the desires of all men; but he is still superior to these two as he possesses in addition (to the quality of fulfiling the desires of all men) the virtue of giving fearless shelter, mastery over senses and smiling face, modesty and other virtues.
By his fame the moss appears like snow, the cuckoos like swans, the (blackwatered) Jamuna like (white) clouds; the (blue) throat of Sankara like the shores of the Kahirasigara; Sri Krishna like Balabhadra; the mountain of soot like the Himalayas; the earth-cow like a cow giving fine milk and the Rahu like Chandra.
He (Sridhara) with great faith in Somanitha prayed to the God with such praises as the following-the moon is made of offerings made to him and taken away; the Setabandha made by Ramachandra is his water-course; the Kshirasågara is the water with which his feet were washed; the lord of the mountains is the dirt washed off his body when cleaned; the conch-shell Panchajanya is his rejected food; the Suranadi (the Ganges) is the beautiful and pure perspiration coming out (of him)
Brahmå seeing his glory purify the three worlds, and seeing that it had made its habitation in all places, praised her by saying that there was no other like her.
It appears that Välmika Rishi was often praising him in his previous birth as being a hero, as one who kept his senses under restraint, as one who was fortunate with his good acts wide spread, as one who in new speech, as one who was meritorious, as one who was fine by the great number of his virtues, and as one who was self-dependent and pure.
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By the description of whose virtues, the mind. how can that of Brahmå be pleased by the words of those believing themselves poets and using improper language, or how can the great fate of (this man) be described. by them?
His fame-which fills with affection the caves of the earth and the sky, nourishes itself fearlessly, pierces the large quantity of darkness, and is energetic in destroying the impurities of the Kali-yuga-proudly dances (like a dancing girl intoxicated by liquor) on the court-like temples of elephants with the fanlike ears beating time.
The creeper of his fame grows victorious in the world, which has for its bed the Lokaloka mountains, which is watered by the waters of the ocean that bears pearls in it, which has spread on the head of Sankara with all its sprouts in the form of virtues and which having, as it has, a stem as big as the lord of snakes is spreading in all quarters with its pollens in the form of snow, sun (light), blooming flowers and brilliant stars,
Aho! Shrutgyanam
