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also owing to the fickleness like a rainbow of the bappiness resulting from the association of dear relatives, King Avantiséna died. Soon after the completion of his funeral ceremonies, I was installed on the throne by ministers, feudatory chiefs, body-gua. rds, and other principal citizens of the town I established big charlties for giving help to poor, helpless, persons, to the unsupported, to foreigners, and to people distressed with poverty; built temples with high tops, and I appreciated the worth of powerful individuals. In course of time with the lessening of my sorrow, I subdued my feudatory chiefs, drove out robbers creating molestation in my kingdom, and I enforced the rule followed by my predecessors.
One day, riding a white elephant, with white chowries waved by courtezans with a white umbrella held over my bead, surrounded by retinues of celestial songstors and my own servants, and by furlous horses bent upon going along the wrong road and kicking up a mass of dense dust, I went out of the town with the object of witnessing the wealth of the forest region, and when I was having a view of tender trees lovely with flowers and fruits, when I was wandering in bowers of Mādhavi creepers ( spring-creeper-Gaertnera Racemosa ), when I was looking at the expansion of plantain-leaves, when I was viewing at the leaves of Kétaki tree as white as the collected portion of the Moon, when I was smelling the fragrance of a heap of Bakula (Mimusops Elengi ), and Málati (Jasminum Grandiflorum ) flowers and when I was taking into my hand a small collection of fresh mango-blossoms whose flower-julce was being smelt by humming bees attracted by their supreme fragrance I instantly, heard the loud nolse of attendants saylag “ O Lord | See, what a fearful fight is being carried on in the vault of the sky | It seems dreadful, and extremely terrible even to gods and vidyādharas ( falries!. On looking high with my eyes wide awake, I saw vidyadharas engaged in mutual fight by Inflicting injuries with various sharp-pointed javelins, spears, tridents, bhindipāls (a kind of piercing weapon), and other weapons, and making futile the well-directed aims of their adversaries, they
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