Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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sky are observed in their clear demarcation, when illumined by lightning flashes " (404). “The villages with their groves of trees, discernible only at their tops owing to the up-heaving overgrowth of grass on the forest borders, appear to have sunk down, as it were, by the coiling columns of smoke" ( 409). “The forest-borders, with cool breezes ( blowing) after a break in showers, delight the heart (at the sight) of the herds of cattle returning by their land-paths" (411). King Yašovarman slays the Magadha King :
The group of kings, allies of the Gauda king, who had earlier deserted him and fled away ( 414), now returned and joined him in a fight which was fierce (415). Blood of soldiers flowed profusely and the gods sent down showers of Mandara flowers to the accompaniment of the sounds of big, heavenly drums ( 416 ). In such a furious fight, the King Yaśovarman seized the Magadha King as he was running away and made a morsel of him (417).
After having slain the Magadha (or the Gauda ) king, Yasovarman marched ahead through the outskirts of the coastal forests of the sea'smelling the fragrance of cardamom'( 417). “There he wandered through the cocoanut palm forests, studded with stones massed on the shore and smelling sweet with the broken pieces of cocoanuts”, 418). Defeat of the King of the Vangas and the Southern King :
In the course of his expedition, he meets the king of the Vangas, who clashes with him with his mighty elephants. The brave Vangas are, however, defeated and made' to bow down in homage by him' (420). He moved on in the South, 'casting his eyes on forest lands bristling with pumpkin gourds, with herds of deer