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He daily gave a Dāna, alms, copiously, like the Ta Dāna, the fragrat secretion issuing from the temples of elephants in rut. He conquered six kinds of passions like a rişi. He was like a fortress to the administrative justice practised by his ancestors. He was like a Himālaya, the source of the divine river-like extremely lustrous fame, and he was like a great ocean in producing his many virtuous gem-like qualities. With such a king, who had undertaken the burden of administering the extensive king. dom on bis own powerful arms, his ministers were kept only for the preservation of administrative ethics; the completeness of waterials of elephants, horses, war-chariots, and warriors, was only for the splendour of his court; swords, discus, bows, arrows, and spears were only for show; a consideration of confidence was only expected from servants; the king had no regard for the protection of his own person by other people, so, his body-guards were only for display
King Satrumardana had, under him, Nayasara er a chief officer of a village named Prithvi-pratisthāna Teet Raya), who was well-behaved. Nayasāra had heard Dharma Sāstras, and so, he knew well what objects were to be accepted and which of them, to be rejected. He was the receptacle of many virtuous qualities like sereneness. He was straight-forward, modest, was speaking sweetly, and was ever ready to render service to others. Although he had no opportunity of reudering service to an ascetic, he was slothsowe in doing misdeeds. He discountenanced injury to others, was always intent on acquiring virtues, and was blind to secing the defects of others.
One of his preceptors once preached Nayasāra, who had so many virtuons qualities, the desirability of acquiring more virtues, thus -
( child I the prosperity of wealth, having appeared once, disappears immediately in an instant by the disturbing force of imprudent behaviour, like the flame of a lamp blown out by disturbing winds. A number of other virtues, as white as to piece
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