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V. 



The fifth feems to be an elegy on the death of a 

 king named Vigraha, who is reprefented as only (lum- 

 bering. The laft hemiftich is hardly legible, and very 

 obfcure; but the fenfe of both ftanzas appears to be 

 this. 



O'M. 



1. An offence to the eyes of (thy) enemy's confort 

 (thou) by-whom-fortune-was-given-to-every fuppliant, 

 thy fame, joined to extenfive dominion, fhines, as we 

 defire, before us: the heart of (thy) foes was vacant, 

 even as a path in a defert, where men are hindered 

 from paffing, O fortunate Vigraha Rdjadeva 3 in the 

 jubilee occafioned by thy march, 



2. May thy abode, O Vigraha, fovereign of the 

 world, be fixed, as in reafon, (it ought,) in the bofoms, 

 embelljlhed with Love's allurements, and full of dig- 

 nity, of the women with beautiful eyebrows, who were 

 married to thy enemies ! Whether thou art I?idra 9 or 

 Vijhnu, or Siva, there is even no deciding : thy foes 

 (are) fallen, like defcending water. Oh ! why dolt thou 

 through delufion continue fleeping ? 



XXII. 



