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ashamed, and as a result of this, the eyes in his four heads began to 
move in vacancy. 
78. He was endowed with the three-fold regal: powers and ob- 
served the tula-purusa-dana.! The possession of the whole world did 
not give him so much pleasure as he derived from granting several 
pieces of land to pious Brahmanas. 
79. Attracting the hearts of deer-eyed girls, and crushing those 
of the enemies, the king, who was anxious that learned men should 
know the meaning and construction of his name most appropriately 
assumed the title of Ananga-bhima. 
80. The king Anayga-bhima the beloved of his servants, after 
ruling the earth by force of his mighty arm, for thirty-four years, went 
to the abode of the gods. 
81. From Aditi-like illustrious Kastira-dévi and the Kacyapa- 
like king Ananga-bhima, was born on the earth the warrior Nara- 
simha, (Visnu)-like Narasimha, the saviour of the world and the des- 
troyer of the sinners, . 
82. The king Nara-simha was always engaged in benevolent 
deeds. Seeing his boundless charity, it was thought, as if Nara-simha 
(Visnu) himself had been born in this world in order to wash with the 
water of profuse charity, his hands formerly polluted by the blood of 
the king of the Asuras (Hiranya-kagipu). 
83. He was fanned from both sides with two white camaras, ;, and 
a white umbrella was spread above his head. The room in which he 
sat was built of white elephants’ tusks. The sight of it led a visitor 
to believe that the Goddess Bhavani thinking him to be his own son 
had taken him on her lap, and for this reason his feet are always rested 
on the victorious lion-seat. 
84. Nay, Ganga herself blackened for a great extent by the flood 
of tears which washed away the collyrium from the eyes of the Yavanis 
of Radha and Varéndra, and rendered waveless at his extraordinary 
deeds, was (I think), for that time transformed by ots Brings into the 
Yamuna. 
85. The eight mountains and the eight Auer of the quarters 
which bear the burden of the earth all lie upon his hand. So when he 
weighs himself against gold in the Tulapurusa ceremony, where shall 
the single golden mountain, Suméru, the abode of gods be P 
86. Shining day and night, and making Meéru over to the 
Brahmanas in pious gifts, namely, tulapwrusa, king Nara-simha built 
at Kona-kona (a place of great renown) a temple for the sun to live 
in with the other geds. 
87. Whose fame pleasing to the sight after traversing the eight 
1 Presents of gold, jewels, and other ornaments equal to a man’s weight. 
