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and that headless corpses were running away, that the young imps were howling, that the fire of fire-mouthed goblins met the eye blazing forth from the hollows of sculls, and that all was terrific with the fearful ill-boding cries of jackals howling in their desire of devouring flesh.
(Verse 21.) On his expeditions the forests by the sea, near which his army encamped, had the number of their coral-sprouts doubled by the tips of the hands of women, stretched forth to gather them.
(22.) To Malaya his thoughts wandered, because it is there that the waves of the sea are playing, because there that wind is blowing which causes the Kerala women to sport, because there the serpent is stealing the fragrance of the trees.
(23.) Having conquered the lines of country by the shore of the eastern sea, and having taken Pali from the lord of Kosala, having uprooted the dwellings of enemies one after another, he was a most splendid master of the sword.
(24.) From him was born that observer of prudent behaviour, Keyûravarsha, who fulfilled the ardent wishes of the minds of the women of Gauda, who was a deer to sport on those pleasure-hills-the breasts of the damsels of Karnata, (and) ornamented the foreheads of the women of Lâța; who engaged in amorous dalliance with the women of Kasmir, (and) was fond of the charming songs of the women of Kalinga.
(25.) Even when his soldiers, made to march to subdue the regents of the quarters, enacted the destruction of the universe so as to rouse the apprehension of the three worlds, no sheets of dust could rise from the earth, flooded as it was with streams of tears that were shed by crowds of captive women of enemies who again and again were made prisoners.
(26.) In battle that king wielded his big sword which, covered as it was with a mass of pearls from the frontal globes of elephants openly cleft by him, was covered as it were with the drops of the fame of his enemies, which it had often drunk and then emitted again under the pressure of. (the king's) firm grasp.
(27.) Up to the Kailasa, the intensely lustrous friend of Parvati's play, and up to the noble eastern mountain over which the sun shines forth, near the bridge of the waters and as far as the western sea, too, the valour of his armies brought endless anguish on hostile people.
(28.) He spread the battle-fields all over with the heads of proud enemies, who in their anger madly attacked him,-(with heads) which were honoured with the eager glances of the eyes of the damsels of heaven, (and) the skull-bones of which were falling off under the pressure of the grasp of the hands of exulting female goblins, eager for the blood which was trickling down under the strokes of his vibrating quick arrows.
(29.) "Our lord is an incarnation of Rudra; our lord supports the house of the three worlds; our lord is liberal; our lord is an iron fetter for restraining lawless princes; when crowds of excellent bards thus gave utterance to incessant brilliant words of flattery, the minds of hostile people who stood in his hall of audience shook
violently.
(80.) There was (a sage), free from the blemishes of sin, Bharadvaja by name, who was the one regent of all whose wealth consisted in quiescence. From his male energy, deposited in a water-pot, sprang that Bharadvaja (Drona) whose conduct roused the wonder of the three worlds.
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