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else is able, O conqueror, to support a camp above water like the circle of heavenly bodies in the sky? You are known as 'invincible' even by the Master of the gods, because of such wonderful power. Pardon our crime of ignorance. Now place your hand, a new life-giving drug, on our backs. Henceforth we will remain subject to your commands, O Lord.” After making them subject to himself and entertaining them, Bharata, knowing what was suitable, dismissed them. For the anger of the great is limited by submission. Then at the King's command Suşeņa returned after conquering the north district of the Sindhu, bounded by the mountain and the ocean. Enjoying delights, the King remained there a long time, as if to make non-Aryans Aryans by contact with his own Aryan people.
Conquest of Kşudrahimavat (460–481) One day, the King's cakra-jewel, extremely brilliant, left the armory, a security for the conquest of the quarters. The King went by its path, like a river by a channel, as it went by a path in the east to Mt. Kşudrahimavat. Going with ease like a noble-elephant, the King arrived after a few marches at the southern slope of Mt. Kșudrahima, which was covered with birch, tagara, and deodar groves. The King established his camp there, like Indra in Pāņdaka. Concentrating on the deity of Kșudrahimavat, Ārsabhi made a four days' fast, auspicious and of prime importance for the accomplishment of actions. Then at the end of four days' fast, mounting his chariot, he left the ocean of the camp at dawn with great splendor like the sun. Quickly he went to Mt. Himavat, and the chief of kings struck it arrogantly three times with the front of his chariot. Then the King, standing in the vaišākha position, 809 discharged an arrow marked with his name at the
309 467. In the vaišākha-position one foot is advanced. It is the position of the world-figure,' which is erroneously represented in
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