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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1889.
(23) Slain elephants, floating in blood, with their foreheads cut open by warriors, appeared like dark clouds in a red sky, - in the field where the Chembian, who possesses the bannered, chariots and the ever-victorious army of lancers, killed those who frowned at him.
(24) Men's heads, cut off by strong-shouldered warriors, rolling on the ground, appeared like the round black fruits which had dropped down in) a grove of palmyra-palms shaken by a storm, - in the field where the king of the country watered by the Kaveri, who wears garlands of fragrant flowers, killed those who would not be attached to him.
@5) Like rocks advancing on rocks, elephants rushed against elephants, and the tall banners borne aloft on them shook and fluttered as if brushing the sky, - in the field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed those who would not be united with him.
(26) The red-cared hawks, which flew upwards holding in their mouths the hands cut off by warriors, appeared like the red-beaked cagle which soars in the sky, seizing a fivelicaded snake, - in the field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed those who would not submit to him.
(27) The bright crimson blood which gathered in the deep foot-prints, left in the red mire by furious elephants, appeared like the juice of flowers collected in pots, in the field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed those who would not be allied to him.
(28) The jackals which snatched away the hands of warriors, with shields in their grasp, cut off by heroes who had never flod (from their foes) and who rushed furiously brandishing their massive swords, appeared as if holding up mirrors, in the field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed those who would not approach him (to be his friends).
(29) Like troops of peacocks flying from groves shaken by a tempest, came women, wailing for their kindred slain in the fight, - in the field where the furious Chenkaņmal engaged in battle.
(30) Like floods which washed down rocks, was the flowing blood that dragged down the elephants, — in the field where the wrathful Chenkaņmal, brave and strong as a lion, killed those who would not submit.
(31) The gold plates adorning the foreheads of ferocious elephants killed by fearless Warriors, wero dazzling, like flashes of lightning (mid dark clouds),- in the battle-field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed his onemics.
(32) The faultless fair lady earth crimsoned, as if she had clothed herself in red, - in the field where the glorious lord of the land of raging floods, who possesses drums adorned with garlands, killed those who offended him.
(33) Broken swords of shining steel lay glittering in streams of blood, like fishes struggling on land inundated by floods which had burst suddenly from a tank, - in the field where the Chembian, driving in a bannered chariot drawn by horses with cropped manes conquered his enemies.
(34) The jackals which tagged at the entrails out out by warriors with flashing swords in the mêlée, appeared like chained wolves (struggling to get free), - in the field where the youthful king, adorned with ornaments of gold, killed (his enemies) in battle.
(35) Like rocks rolled down with lions on them by the shock of a thunder-clap, the royal elephants fell, with the princes that rode them, — in the field where (fought) the king of the country watered by the Kaveri which bursts its banks when swollen by floods.
(36) Like mushrooms trodden by cattle, were the enemies' ambrellas trampled by war. steeds, and the comparison was indeed too true, - in the battle-field where the king of the country watered by the Kaveri seized Kalumalam.
(37) Big drums, and the dead bodies of princes and of tusked elephants, floated on all sides, like ships at sea, - in the field where the lord of Punal-Nadu killed his enemies.
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