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CHAPTER ONE Mülaka, Bhogavardhaka, Kuntula; in the west: Durga, Sūparika, Arbuda, Arya, Kalli, Vanāya, Sāksika, Nartasādhika, Māheka, Ruru, Kaccha, Surāștrā, Narmada, Sārasyata, Tāpasa; in the north: Kuru, Jāngala, Pañcāla, Sūrasena, Pataccara, Kalinga, Kāśi, Kausilya, Bhadrakāra, Vļka, Arthaka, Vigarta, Kaušala, Ambaşta, Sālva, Matsya, Kuniyaka, Mauka, Bālhika, Kāmboja, Madhudeśa, Madraka, Atreya, Yavana, Abhira, Vāna, Vānasa, Kaikaya, Sindhusauvīra, Gāndhāra, Katha, Toşa, Daseraka, Bhāradvāja, Camūra, Vaprasthāla, Tārņakarņaka; these behind the Vindhya: Tripura, Avanti, Cedi, Kişkindha, Naişadha, Daśārņa, Kusumārņa, Naupala, Antapa, Kausala, Padāma, Vinihotra, Vaidiša; Videha, Vatsa, Bhadra, Vajra, Siņdimbha, Saitava, Kutsa, Bhanga--these occupying the middle part of Madhyadeśa.
Conquering the lord of Māgadha, the god-lord of Varadāman, Prabhāsa, Kộtamāla, and others in turn, his commands kissing the heads of the circle of kings, Brahman's son himself conquered these ninety-nine countries. The king made the six-part land a one-part land by rooting up, as it were, boundaries that had grown up under different masters. After crushing his enemies, the king set out for Kāmpilya, his commands cherished by crowned kings, covering the earth with soldiers and the sky with dust which they stirred up, with the road shown by the cakra like a door-keeper going in advance, lord of the fourteen jewels and the nine treasures, traveling with unbroken marches, the king arrived at the city. King Brahmadatta entered the city Kāmpilya, which had a concert undertaken from joy, as it were, in the guise of the noise of the drums. Then his coronation lasting for twelve years, like that of Bharata, was commenced by kings coming from every direction.
Story of the faithful Brāhman (471-484) When in the past Brahman's son was wandering alone, there was a Brāhman, a companion, sharing pleasures and pains. “When you have heard that I have obtained the realm,
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