LN. 8 
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Fuut TRANSLATION oF J. 
[L. 13] Om Hail! From that glorious town of Yayatinagara,— 
L. 1-4]—where the enjoyment of love is being continually 
subdued and fascinated by amorous thoughts ; 
. 4-7.|—-where, even in the midst of quarrels arising from 
jealousy, lovers, beaten by lotuses from the ears of women who 
have cast the beau 
anguishes roused to action by the entrance of the sharp arrows 
of Cupid, with their hairs standing on the ends (lit. sprouting up) 
of the objects of their love) ; 
Ll. 7-11.|—where, at the tops of houses beautifully white- 
washed, the places of assignation of unchaste women and their 
pearl ornaments were whitened by the clusters of rays issuing from 
and. whose spotless fame, well known throughout the three worlds, 
_ covered the eight quarters like a canopy. 
[Lines 16-18] From him sprang King Yayati, whose glory was 
sung in all the three worlds, who defeated his enemies with con- 
tempt as it were, and whose sword had its sharp edge made rugged 
with the pearls coming out of the foreheads of the elephants rent 
asunder by it ; 
Ll. 18-21.] whose sword rent asunder with its point the 
foreheads of a large number of elephants, from which heaps of pearls 
came out and adorned the bosom of the damsel of the earth in every — 
battle ; the dusts of whose lotus-like feet, as ptire as the rays of the 
gems in the head-dresses of kings constantly bowing down at his 
face, thirty-two big elephants, named Kaémadeva, etc., whose riders 
had been killed,—elephants who had sharp and huge tusks’ 
and whose temples were discharging ichor and therefore abounded 
with oa of greedy bees getting intoxicated (by draughts of the 
fragrant fluid) 
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