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him like a teacher a pupil at the end of his studies. He broke his fast together with powerful monarchs, who were like parts of his own body that had become separated, eating from dishes placed on the ground in front of them. He held an eight-day festival for the god Kệtamāla. What will lords, gained over by submission, not do ?
Conquest of southern district of Sindhu (248–284)
The next day the King summoned the general named Suşeņa and gave him instructions, like Hari to Naigameşin. "Cross the river by the skin-jewel and conquer the southern district of the Sindhu, bounded by the Sindhu, the ocean, and Vaitādhya. Strike the Mlecchas there with clubs as weapons, like a forest of jujube trees, and bring the fruit of various jewels and wealth.” Then the general, like a lion in strength, like the sun in splendor, like Bphaspati in powers of intellect, knowing the paths of low places and high places, 201 and of other inaccessible places belonging to both water and dry land, as if born in them, having all the good marks, understanding the language of all the Mlecchas, took his lord's command on his head like a favor.
After bowing to his master and going to his own abode, he gave instructions for the march to the vassalkings, etc., like images of himself. Then after bathing and making the oblation, wearing a few ornaments of great value, 202 fully armed, the propitiatory rite of the
291 252. The nikutānām of the ed. must be emended to niskuţā. nām of the MSS. But still it is not clear. Nişkuta, as used a few lines earlier and throughout to mean a district of the country, does not suit here. Neither do the interpretations of the lexicons. It is obviously contrasted with nimnānām.
202 255. The compound here is mahārghyasvalpabhușana, which favors Hoernle's interpretation of the Pk, appamah'aggha. See Uv. 7. 208, n. 301, and B. p. 23, n. I.
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