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and therefore reckoned among poems, do indeed ex- 

 hibit continual inftances of terms and phrases employed 

 in a double sense : but not, like the Rdghava pmiduviyay 

 two distinct stories told in the same words. 



The following passage will sufficienJiy explain the 

 manner in which the poem is composed. The first 

 stanza is of the mixed sort of metre named Upajdfi, 

 which will be immediately described ; the second is in 

 one of the measures composing it, termed Uphidi-avajra, 



[See Plate B, Fig. 2,] 



50 Matuh s'riyan sandad'had Indumatyah 

 S'laghyab s'aratcala invo'du panctch, 

 Asau, prajapalanadacsha bhavdd, 

 Ajasya chacre manasah pramadam. 



51. Vichitraviryasya divan gatasya 

 Pituh sa rajyam paiipadya balyu, 

 Purim Ayodbyam, Dhrlir^shtra bhadram, 

 Sa Hastisopbam suc'haniad'hvuvasa, 



** Having the beauty of his mother Indumati, and 

 admirable like the dewy season when it enjoys tbe beauty of 

 the stars, he (Das'ara'tha) made glad the mind of Aja* 

 by his skill in the protection of the people. Succeeding in 

 youth to the kingdom of his variously valiant father, who de- 

 parted for heaven, he dwelt happily in the city of Ayod'bya, 

 which was adorned with elephants and upheld the prosperity 

 of his realm." 



Othebwise interpreted the same passage signifies 



"Having the beauty of his mother, and admirable like 

 the dewy season, when it enjoys the beauty of the stars and 

 of the moon, he (Pa'ndu) made glad the heart of the unborn 

 god, by his skill in the protection of creatures. Succeedi^ng 

 in youth to the kingdom of his father Vichitravirya* 



Aja was father, and Indumati mother, of Da'sakat'ha. 



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