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ears by the sounds of the marching-drums resembling the sound of a mass of Puşkarāvartaka-clouds; soon making heaven and earth one thing, like a hemispherical bowl and its cover, by the dust raised by the hooves of the horses advancing in a circle; making the sky resemble the ocean with its sea-monsters by the skeat-fish and makaras on the chariot- and elephant-banners; producing a rainy day, as it were, by the masses of troops of elephants shining with sevenfold 202 dripping streams of mada; covering the earth completely with a crore of foot-soldiers leaping with joy as if wishing to ascend to the sky; resplendent with the cakra-jewel going in front like a general with irresistible magnificence and with unblunted power at all times; the earth, rough from high places, etc., made level by the general with the staff-jewel like a harrow; traversing the road with an easy gait like a bhadraelephant, with a yojana's march every day; equal to Prācinabarhis, in a few days he arrived at the Māgadhacountry 299 in the east, the only tilaka on the face of the Gangā.
Then the carpenter-jewel, at the command of Cakrabhịt Sagara, made a camp like a younger brother of Vinitā, with many extensive lofty elephant-houses, with horse-stables like huge caverns by the thousand, with mansions thinking themselves palaces of the gods and pavilions thinking themselves clouds, with markets of equal shape as if made from one model, provided with highways and rows of embellishments of triangular places, etc., nine yojanas wide and twelve long.
There in the pauşadha-house, 204 the King observed a three days? fast, placing the prince of Māgadhatirtha in his mind. A11 his ornaments removed, reclining on a couch of kuśa-grass, his weapons laid aside, observing continence,
292 45. The 7 streams flow from the kara (2), kața (2), medhra (I), and netra (2). See Mallinātha's com. to the Raghuvansa 4. 23. 298 50. I.e., of Māgadhatīrtha.
55. See I, notes 281 and 270.
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