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called the forest of Vakpushta by the people. - (58) In the alms-house (sattra), which this virtuous lady had founded there, crowds of poor people, who arrive on various paths, are fed even now. - (59) The Creator shewed his good taste in not according any offspring to this couple; this was doubtlessly because he thought that no (child of theirs) would be able to surpass their deeds. — (60) The Creator shews the highest connoisseurship in not trying to produce a fruit of the sugar-cane; (for if he did so) could then (its) usefulness, which surpasses (that of) the finest nectar-juice, be turned to better account, after having left it ? - (61) Some (say) that the queen committed her body to the fire, because she thought that the country had been deprived of the sun by a long period of dark days in consequence of some misdemeanour of her own.
(62) Then a descendant of another family, (called) Vijaya, was king for eight years; he surrounded the temple of) Vijayesvara with a town.
(63) Then the son of this lord of the earth, who had been a very Mahendra on earth, the long-armed and far-famed king Jayêndra, enjoyed the earth. — (64) His arm, that resembled a pillar, bore a statue of the goddess of victory, who was resplendent with a fluttering garment (consisting of) the waves of (his) constant fame. — (65) This king had a minister, called Samdhimati, whose history was wonderful, who was adorned with devotion to Siva, and who was the best of the wise. — (66) There is no means in the world, by which kings can be prevented from lending their ears to slander, just as there is none to prevent rntting elephants from flapping their ears. — (67) Thus, the courtiers filled the king with hatred against that minister, by suggesting that his wonderful intelligence should make him an object of distrust. - (68) Out of anger and without reason, he banished him from the court, confiscated his pro. perty, and made him poor for life. - (69) Not even hy a report did the courtiers refresh him, who was parched by the hatred of the king, which resembled the steam of the hot weather. - (70) As soon as a speech reaches the profound king, his attendants, like the echoes of a mountain, distinctly repeat the words. -(71) But he did not wince under the king's enmity and his own) poverty, as he delighted in the worship of Siva, to which he could now attend without obstacles. - (72) Then, through the influence of the greatness of future events, the unheard-of report spread in every house, that the kingdom would belong to Samdhimati.(73) The king, who was reminded by his confidants that no rumour could spread without having been circulated, became frightened and threw him into prison. -- (74) After he had there been pining, his feet being compressed by frightful fetters, for ten full years, the king's life came to an end. -- (75) Abont to die without a son, the king was burnt both by the pain of disease and by the thought of him (Samdhimati). - (76) Steaming with the fire of hatred, which was burning incessantly, he found no other means to prevent what was to happen, than to kill him. - (77) The very means which dunces adopt in order to lock ap coming events, must be considered as the door thrown open (for them) by fate. - (78) If the Creator wishes to suddenly impart unequalled power to a spark of fire, which flickers feebly on a heap of glowing coals, he causes a bystander, who wants to extinguish it, to mistake a vessel filled with molten ghee for a pot of water. - (79) By the king's order, cruel executioners killed Samdhimati at night, by fixing him on a stake. - (80) When the sick king heard that he had been impaled, the
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P. On Vijayébvara or Vijaycia, the modern Bijbihárs, see A. G., p. 98 f. The temple itself has been entioned in Kalhana's account of the reigns of Asoka, Jalauka I., and Mihirakula. €3 : T.
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