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another Yama. Soldiers fought with soldiers, generals with generals, but Yama, angry, fought with Daśamauli, angry. After they had sent arrow against arrow for a long time, Yama attacked quickly, raising his cruel staff, like a rogueelephant his trunk. Daśagrīva broke it into pieces with a sharp-edged arrow, like a piece of a lotus-stalk, esteeming his enemies as eunuchs. Again Yama covered Rāvana with arrows and Rāvaņa checked them, like greed all the virtues. Then Daśānana, raining many arrows simultaneously, weakened Yama, like old age causing loss of strength. Then Yama escaped from the fight, and went in haste to Indra the Vidyādhara-lord, chief of Rathanupura. Vama bowed to Sakra and said, his hands folded submissively:
"The handful of water 104 has been given by me now to the rank of Yama, lord. Neither angry nor pleased, I shall not hold the position of Yama. For Daśagriva has risen. Now he is Yama even of Yama. He put to flight the guards in hell and released the hell-inhabitants; and I have escaped alive from battle only by a wealth of heroism. After he had conquered Vaisravaņa in battle, Lankā was seized and his car Puspaka; and Surasundara was defeated."
Then Sakra, angered, wished to fight and was restrained by the hereditary ministers by various means, as they feared a battle with the powerful Rāvaņa. Then Indra gave the city Surasangīta to Yama and he, himself, remained as usual in Rathanūpura, amusing himself.
Now, Daśāsya gave the city Kişkindhā to Adityarajas and the city Rkşapura to Rkşarajas. He himself went to Lankā, his power adequate for anything, praised like a deity by relatives and citizens. Daśäsya ruled his grandfather's great kingdom, established in Lankā like Indra in Amarāvati.
Now, a son was borne to Adityarajas, the king of the Kapis, by his chief-queen Indumălini, named Valin,
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That is, funeral rites have been performed, as it were.
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