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(5.) The fire of his anger even now, in the guise of a forest conflagration, flercely burns the trees in the gardens of the habitations of the enemies slain (by him).
(6.) On his expanded broad breast shone, clearly visible, multitudes of healed-up sword-wounds, like numbers engraven (there) to mark his victories in many battles,
(7.) The army of the enemy and the wives of others, however anxious they might be, two things of his they never were able to see, the one-his back, the others-his breast.
(8.) In his desire of creating, putting into the shade the Creator who had made Reven oceans and seven mountains, he built tanks large as seas and habitations of the gods immoveable like mountains, by billions.
(9.) Disdainfully by his command he bent low great hard-hearted rulers, though they had struck root in the soil.
(10.) Pretending to dig wells, he opened the veins of the earth, the body of which had as it were become heavy with the great weight of the edifices (erected) by him.
(11.) He turned back the enemies who, facing his arrows, eager in their desire for gain, encountered him, but not the suppliants who, intending to beg, approached him, anxious to secure his benefactions.
(12.) Making known the world over his unprecedented skill in contesto, he, with out becoming a plaintiff, always defeated his opponents.
(13 and 14.) He begat a son devoted to the preservation of the three Vedas, named the illustrious Takshadatta, who bent down the necks of his enemies; whose vital spirits,-highly enraged as it were because they alone, though they were his own, should so often, when he was seeking glory in battle, be renounced by him like worthless straw, (by him) who to all others) granted safety-when they found an opportunity of leaving him, departed, using as their way of exit the open wounds (inflicted) by the weapons (of adversaries).
(15.) In this pleasant Gavidhumat, where the quarters of the heavens are deafened by the noise of the constant explanation of vedic lore, that good man" caused to be erected this noble, wide, firm, charming, and wonderful home for Brahmans familiar with the three Vedas. .
(16.) As long as his excellent qualities, like the rays of the moon dispelling the mass of intense darkness, delight the world, so long may this abode of the twice-born, pleasing the world, last, without disturbance of the arrangements first made for it!
(17) These verses on noble conduct were composed by Bhadra, the son of Våmana; written were they by the artizan" Devadeva, the son of fbana. (L. 13.) Mahasenadatta, the son of Suryadatta, of the gotra of Sarksitya, be
longing to the Bahvricha-school. Jatavedasoma, the son of Govatsasoma, of the gotra of Vatsa, belonging to the
Adhvaryu-school. Vaisvanarakirti, the son of Kuladipakirti, of the gotra of Kuhala, belonging to
the Chhandoga-school.
w wher, the word for 'rulers,' also means 'moudtains."
#io, Takabadatta died in battle.
#vis., Mamma, the father of Takabadatta.
सूबश्न for सूबधार, in not given in the dictionaries.. * The dictionaries giro Art and the, but not me.
