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Vol. I, No. 1.] Charters of the Somavams Kings. 
[NV. 8.] 
Funt TRANSLATION OF J. 
(L. 13] Om Hail! From that glorious town of Yayatinagara,— 
| L. 1-4|—where the enjoyment of love is being continually 
intensified and still more intensified by the close embraces (of 
lovers), by which fatigue is removed, in which hissing sound often 
appears and in which hairs often stand on their ends, although 
such enjoyment suffers interruptions as the ardent young couple 
show their skill in the various processes of conjugal enjoyment 
with their eyes dilated (with excitement) and with their minds 
subdued and fascinated by amorous thoughts ; 
(Ll. 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 beauty of the celestial damsels into shade by the 
ereatness of their endless and peculiar charms, have all their men- 
tal anguishes roused to action by the entrance of the sharp arrows 
of Cupid, with their hairs standing on the ends (lit. sprouting up) 
on account of the sprinkling of the drops of sweat (from the persons 
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 
earl ornaments were whitened by the clusters of rays issuing from 
the club-like tusks of very lofty elephants—the rays which rendered 
the autumn moon useless in the matter of dispelling darkness ; 
[Lines 11-13] (and) where the fatigue of the women enjoying 
conjugal caresses with ardent attachment is removed by the breezes 
surcharged with the particles of water sent up by the breaking and 
- swelling of the high waves of the Mahanadi. 
[Lines 13-16| There was on the earth a beautiful king named 
Janamejaya, who had a pure and mild appearance and a lotus-like 
face, who had subjugated by the force of his arms all his enemies, 
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 pure as the rays of the 
gems in the head-dresses of kings constantly bowing down at his 
doors, assumed, through equality, the lustre of these (7.e. the gems) ; 
{Ll. 21-24.) who, having defeated Ajapala in battle, aston- 
ished the heavenly damsels by capturing alive, with a smiling 
face, thirty-two big elephants, named KAmadeva, etc., whose riders 
had been killed,—elephants who had _ sharp and huge tusks 
and whose temples were discharging ichor and therefore abounded 
with flocks of greedy bees getting intoxicated (by dr: aughts of the 
fragrant fluid). 
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