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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1908.
(239) Afraid of receiving another blow, the king for a while lay like one dead; but when he saw the enemies far advanced, he rose again to his royal state.
(240) While these poor-witted men ascended the king's residence, they beheld the kinz approaching, who had recovered from his swoon.
(241) "Why did you not, why did you not slay the king?": thus did those wicked fools at that time violently accuse each other.
(242) Angry with each other, they pushed one another from the royal palace and caused their own destruction, which otherwise ) should have been caused by the king.
(243) The angry king impaled the wicked survivors ; he thus raised them high, but down they went to hell.
(244) The pregnant wives of his Bhotts enemies, the wrathful king split asunder with his sword, like pods full of seeds (aro split) with the nails.
(245) The pain in the king's heart arising from his anger at their treason was allayed by the destruction of their race, but not that in the head caused by the blows of their swords..
(246) Having witnessed, for a while, the deeds of Takka and the others, like an evil dream, the land, so to speak, woke again and free from fear, obtained peace.
(247) Pleased with Shab Mir who had taken no part in the treason, the king entrusted to him his son Haidar, as well as his (Haidar's) mother Kota, to bring him up.
(248) Reared by queen Koţā, like a sprouting plant in the rainy season, the boy) enjoyed the protection of Shah Mir.
( 249 ) The king built after his own name a town which was surrounded by a moat which was (as it were ) the disgrace arising from his defeat.
( 250 ) Like the sun on a cloudy day in Pauşa, the king again illumined the world for a few months.
(251) By a disorder of the wind-humoar brought about by the bitter cold, of winter, the pain in the king's head became more intense.
(252) Alas! the headache of the king, whose virtues were ever capable of relieving the pain of numberless heads, went on increasing.
( 258 ) On the eleventh lanar day of Pauza in the year 99, the headache of the king was at last relieved by the physician Death.12
(254) Having protected the earth for three years and two months less eleven days, king Riñchana went to heaven.
11 The date of his death corresponds with Friday, November 25th, A. D. 1923. [Dr. J. Ph. Vogel.]
