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Vidyadhara, who was in an underground house, heard the drum of battle and came out. That brave warrior, adorned in heavenly style, bowed before Báhubali, and first challenged the enemy. He carried on the combat with weapons in various ways; the army was terrified, and Bharata himself rose up.
Then all fought there, elephants with elephants, Horses with horses, charioteers with charioteers, soldiers with soldiers. Bharata was deprived of his weapons by Anilavega with his weapons. Then at the end of a year Bharata sent forth the discus. Anilavega with his fist fought a splendid fight against the discus. The discus fight lasted twenty-one days; then, on the twenty-first day, Bharata cut off with the discus the head of the brave warrior Anilavega, who ⚫ was senseless from thirst. Then Báhubali, seeing much loss of life, sent an ambassador to Bharata to say: 'The battle and enmity is between us two; why do we allow so many soldiers to be killed ?' Bharata agreed, and engaged in five kinds of fighting; first fighting with eyes,* next with speech, then also with arms, fists, and clubs, and in all of them Bharata was defeated. Bharata was, in fact, beaten by Báhubali in all the five combats. Being angry, he sent forth the discus, but the discus had no power against his own family. It revolved round his head, and returned to its place. Báhubali said to himself: 'Oh, the stream of the ever-developing universe, subject to pleasures of sense and attachment!' Then he tore out his hair and took a vow. Bharata, seeing Báhubali absorbed in meditation, did obeisance to him, and thus spake : 'I reverence that warrior, the son of Sunandá, who has conquered those eyes, victorious over the three worlds, by which I, Bharata, the conqueror of the six divisions of the world, have certainly been conquered.' Having praised him in these words, he instituted his son in the kingdom, and then the emperor returned to his own place. Báhubali remained on
* Compare the 134th story in Grimm, Die sechs Diener.' One of these can break in pieces whatever he looks at. 'Der guckte die Feinde ein bisschen scharf an, da sprangen sie auseinander wie Glas.
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