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by the females of the town, came to his palace along with his newly-married wife. The Kumāra did respectful salutations to all the elderly members of the family. A lofty very high excellent palace was reserved for the Kumāra. Living in his highly decorated palace, Nara-Vikrama Kumara began to pass his days happily enjoying worldly pleasures like the Indra in dévaloka, and Dharanéndra in the pātāla-(the lower regions). Occasionally the Kumāra was riding horses, restraining intoxica. ted elephants, practising boxing, showing the skill of rādhāvédha ( an attitude in arrow-shooting), hearing dharma-śāstras, becoming acquainted with news about distant countries, was rendering service to elderly members of the family, and he was giving alms to the poor and needy persons in accordance with their own desires While enjoying pleasures of the world, NaraVikrama Kumāra eventually had two sons named Kusuma-śékhara and Vijaya Sékhara by his queen Silavati. The two princes were very dear to their grand-father (King Narasimha); and being fostered and fondled in many ways, they began to grow up.
One day, when Nara-Vikrama Kumāra was sitting with the king, and all the officers of the state were seated in their appropriate places, the Jaya-kunjara elephant of King Narasimha formidable like the Yama (God of Death) of the PralayaKala (the time of extensive destruction or annihilation of the whole universe )-was running everywhere in the interior of the town. He, reminding one of the destructive current of the arrogant, self-willed Jamnā River devastating big forests, broke with a loud noise a very strongly made iron-chain weighing several maunds He broke into hundreds of pieces his big tyingpost, repulsed elephant-drivers by heavy blows by his trunk, up-rooted big trees and also appearing terrible by destroying with a loud noise several others, he had broken tops of temples by friction with nis temples, and he had shattered the strong, and tall fortress by the thrashing of hid trunk. He had annoyed bees by the speedy flapping of his fan-shaped ears. By his extremely speedy gait, he had created doubts about the gait of his kindred
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