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should no longer be embraced by them, managed to obstruct the complete union of their bodies.
(V. 8.) Triumpbant is that primeval king, the nectar-rayed moon, whose throne is the golden coil of matted hair of Isvara; who, sovereign as he is, is fanned by the abundant spray of the water of the Ganges; (and) wbo has the serpent which encircles the head of Siva, covered with its bright expanded hoode, for his umbrella.
(4.) In the race of that witness of the continuous amorous pastime of the nymphs of heaven, there were born the southern rulers, Virasona and the rest, famous on both (their parents') sides; the record of whose deeds has purified the streams of honied verse which the son of Parasara has made to flow to please the ears of all mankind.
(8.) In that ena family was born that head-garland of the clans of Brahmans and Kshatriyas, 8Amantasena, a very magician in exterminating hundreds of opposing champions; whose wars, in rivalry of the son of Dasaratha carried on near the border of the dam which is cooled by the surging waves of the ocean, are celebrated in song by the nymphs of heaven.
(6.) The battle-fields, crowded with adversaries challenged by his shrill-sounding drums, on which he made his band playfully wield the serpent-like sword, are still covered all over with multitudes of pearls, resembling large cowries, from the cleft frontal globes of the arrays of opponents' elephants, scattered (by him).
(7.) His fame, following in the wake of the caravans of the wives of his enemies, proceeded from house to house, wandered from town to town, ran from wood to wood, roamed from tree to tree, ascended mountain after mountain, (and) crossed sea after sea.
(8.) This hero, singly," slaughtered the wicked robbers of the wealth of Karnata, overrun by hostile tribes, to such an extent, that the ruler of goblins, whose citizens are delighted, does not evon now leave the southern quarter where the ample store of marrow, flesh and fat is not yet exhausted.
(9.) In his old age he frequented the sacred hermitages in the woods by the sandy banks of the Ganges, full of religious devotees doing battle against the terrors of life,(hermitages) which were fragrant with the smoke of sacrificial butter; where the young deer relished the milk of the breasts of kindly hermits' wives; (and) where crowds of parrots knew by rote the texts of the Vedas.
(10.) From him, who inspired awe by his unrivalled knowledge of the supreme spirit, was born Hemantasena, a hero who destroyed" adversaries proud in the strength of their arms, (and) a home of great multitudes of all kinds of spotless qualities which manifested themselves unoeasingly
(11.) On his head he had the dust of the feet of the half-moon-crested (god), in his throat true speech, in his ear sacred precepts, at his feet the hairs of enemies, on his arms the marks of the scars made by the hard bow-string. These always were his sole
* I. e. the poet Vydan. . 1. .. Rama.
I...the ridge of rooks extending from the south of the Coromandel conat towards the island of Ceylon. # I am not sure that this is the exact meaning of the word ekdnga of the orixinal; but oldiga vira looks w if it were intentionally employed in opposition to chaturanga-bala,' an outire or complete army, comprising elephants, chariota, cavalry and infantry.'
* I... Yame, the regent of the southern quarter. # The original bus wdrdibuviral, 'bero whom characteristic it was to destroy' ().
