Indian Antiquary Vol 11

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1882.
(L. 61.)-Like a house-mouse (seized) in the mountains tottered; the tortoise suffered ; dense darkness by a fine young cat, so the serpent the serpent was perplexed; and the elephants named Gôkarņa, who was of low birth, but of the points of the compass were stupified. who took himself to be a hero in the world, Through fear of Rudrad ê va, the hostile) died instantly when he was seized by the kings,-frightened by the uproar, and roaming terrible mungoose Bhima. Then the vital about.(vainly) in the face of his active preairs of the graceful king Cho ô daya, -whose parations, and trembling with the fever of whole body was terrified by the gleaming having their ears filled with the rumbling of the weapon named 'the bewilderer' which was the fear low-sounding drums used in his simultaneous that sprang from the prowess of the glorious enterprises,-abandoned their treasure in their Rudra,-being, as it were, made mad, or houses, their elephants and horses on the road, made oblivious, or possessed by a great demon, their relations halfway along their path, and or greatly overcome by agitation, or thrown their harems in their forts. Having rapidly into confusion, departed to the sky." Though advanced three or four steps, the king sacrificed king Taila pa went to the sky, his delicate first the city of Vard ha månanagari, as body being wasted by violent diarrhoea through if it were the pounding of grain or as if it were fear of this most valorous king Srl-Rudra- a preliminary oblation, in the fire of his anger dê va,-yet Bhim a assumed a transitory posi- which was increased by the knitting of his tion of sovereignty. Just as one young jackal, eyebrows. Trembling with fear at his glances, surrounded by many still more insigoificant 48 (the Pandava prince Bhima trembled at the jackals, despises the earth through vain-glory glances) of Duryodhana, and being disquieted in imagining himself to be a king, and matches in his body, he, Bhima, abandoning all his himself with a lion, and then, causing all the possessions, shamelessly betook himself to the regions to reëcho with the confused noises of forests, accompanied by his brother, his mother, his howlings, becomes terrified and is rendered and his wife. Then the king porsued him, incapable by the (mere) shaking of the mane and burned the city of the king) Chôdôdaya, of the lion, and goes away somewhere or other a city of not great importance,"_just as (and hides himself).-50 Bhima, the vilest of Anjaneya" (burned) the city of Lanka, which kings,-a very beast of a man; the husband of was like the city of the gods, and which was his mother's rival wife; the slayer of the best graced by the amorous pastimes of crowds of of brothers while he was engaged in eating, fawn-eyed women. And he cut down the forest being intent upon attempting to swallow the which was his fortress, the intricacies of which skies, matched himself against the terrible were its door-bars; and he made there a great Sri-Rudrade v a, and ascended to the high- and wonderful lake in the centre of a city. est summit of the mountain of pride increased (L. 107.)-How shall be described the by rivalry. Having heard, through his spies, prowess of king Rudrad ê va, the lord of the of the wealth of the kingdom of Bhima, and earth, who is the sole resting place of the of his evil deeds, the glorious king Rudra goddess of fortane who springs forth from the commenced his preparations for an enterprise womb of the charming ocean of milk which is of victory; and he, who had no adversary | the lineage of Kan du rôd a y a-Choda; of equal standing with himself, joyfully and who destroys the pride of the race of petty quickly then set out for good fortune, being warriors; who possesses the wealth of the led along by the array of his whole army, and whole world ; and who, like Rama, cuts down being attended by his forces, which straightway the multitude of his enemies with his axe ? were made ready. At the time of his setting The earth was pounded by the hoofs of his out on his expedition of dawning victory, the excellent horses, prancing and tall; the sky clouds fell down through the perturbation was pervaded by the number of his excellent pused by the augmentation of the alternations umbrellas which possessed the (white) radiance of the uproar that sprang from the rumbling of of the moonlight; the regions were filled his low-sounding drums; the earth trembled; by the masses of his chauris which were as .: " i. e., "he died."
yanagari." ** Or, perhaps," the city called the lesser Chododa- Hanuman.