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Once, while on return journey (p. 91:) While returning home (p. 25:) Once, while returning from to his capital after continuous after conquering such countries his conquest-march, king Jaya - conquests for twelve years, king of the South as Mahārāstra, sim hade va of Gujarata reached Ja y asimhadeva camped at Tilanga, Karnata and the outskirts of the city of Kānti. a distance of five gavyūtis from Pandy a king lavasimha | Thinking that he
Pāņd y a, king ) a ya simha Thinking that he could not get a the outskirts of the city of camped on the border-line. There, match in fighting anywhere and reKanti. There a bard of Kānti in the evening, he sat with full pomp membering a couplet laying down that met the bard of Jayasimha - in bis assembly, when an alien bard Kānti was so prominent among the deva and eulogized Madana. arrived and praised the assembly in cities as the Jāti among flowers, he bhrama. The other bard request. these words: “TET! TATIT hat: decided to see it; and his army, though ed him to sing a eulogy of his king | श्रीसिद्धराजस्य सभा मदनवर्मण इव मनोविस्मय- unwilling, had to follow him. He (viz. Ja ya sim had eva) in
camped near the city gates. reward whereof he promised to give him suitable gifts, He, however,
When asked by the king, the bard Impressed by the golden peaks of the replied that he used to sing eulogies replied:
city-rampart and the golden mansionof none else than bis own king
tops, he exclaimed, Ma da nabhrama. This matter
" देव ! पूर्वस्यां महोबकं नाम पत्तनं स्फारम् । तत्र मदनवर्मा नाम पृथ्वीपाल: प्राज्ञस्त्यागी भोगी
"qafak ATAT: ” was reported to king Jayasimha,
धर्मी नयी नल इव, पुरूरवा इव, वत्सराज इव, who, being enraged, stayed there
पुनरवतीर्णः पृथिव्याम् । तं राजानं तच्च पुरं यः खलु during the monsoon (or, for four
नित्यं पश्यति सोऽपि वर्णयितं न पारयति । केवलं months) with the intention of fight
43444#arusho za tari agri hraifer I...” ing with Ma da nabhrama.
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At the bard's suggestion Jaya
