24i) Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, [N.S., XIII 



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1. When, at the reverberation [of the crash] the other 

 monarchs trembled in their heart [only then] the world knew 

 the deed of the son of Jeta [ft]. [For]' Kalyana had brought 

 over the Mandovaras " the great 1 ' 2 Emperor, like an immen- 

 surate rock [to crush them]. 



2. [On the one side] the Afuhammadan warriors (?) 

 charged together in the battle, [and on the other, (he men of 

 Mala De] abandoned together their manly strength and their 

 homes. Like a powerful imponderable <tone, the Sultan fell 

 with a thud over the breast of rava Mala [De]. 



3. At the very first knock. Mala | DeJ lied abandoning 

 [his] domains and [his] warlike spirit, and the earth was 

 cleared by the destruction passed [over it 18 bv] Sura, [the 

 Emperor,] whom [Kalyana Mala) had brought— for the revenge 



ot rava Jeta [ Si]-- like a huge (?) stone, [as it were], to crush 

 Jodhpur. 



4. Crushed were the enemies, and avenged was the feud, 

 and Mala [De] was ruined, whilst the grandson of [Luna] 

 Karana, the ornament [of the Rathdras], overflowed [with joy]- 

 Ine great Ra va was repelled, and the city of Vlkd trium] >hcd, and 

 the earth [became safe under its] protector. Kalyana Tat hdra. 



The following song, which is likewise in the form of a gil" 

 comm.anorates an expedition, which Kalvan Mala must have 

 imciertaken against the Bhatis at some period during his reign. 



JNo mention of this expedition is found in the prose chronicles, 



DUt the silence is not surprising when one knows that the 



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