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4. He who while worthy of eulogy, yet by means of informers, whose cha- 

 racter is much to be concealed, men whose hair is diminished by being 1 of- 

 ten pulled, was entangled and impeded by the pride of men of obscure 

 family, a hoary-headed counsellor being _-__-_ _ _ 



5. He who was distinguished in letters, even by the able ontologistCHAXAS, 

 called familiarly the talking Guru, with the honourable appellation of 

 one in whom all [admirable qualities] are united. ----___ 



6. By this [excellent Guru] resembling those [true sages] who are utterly 

 alien from all delight in selfish worldly occupations, - - - _ _ 



7. He having been inflamed with warlike prowess, before whom prostration 

 being made even by the enemies' forces, the conjoined battle strife of 

 armies disappeared, -- ------- _-_ _ _.. 



8. Whose mothers-in-law*, formerly proud and addicted to high minded 



oppressions perpetually, having been by his own arm subdued with the 

 sword of battle, [viz. Sanha'rica' and the rest, - - (line 18.)] 



9. By their passions, at first fiercely erect and tall as the stalks of green 

 barley, at length bursting forth and ripening into affection through the 

 abundant juices within, thus became penitent [in heart permanently 

 from that time ; and] 



10. When, sprung from the bank of the [sacred ?] river, the strength of 



the arm of Ra xasa and the rest, directing his arms, had even removed 

 mountains by the death of the formidable [rapid victor] Xanajit,— 

 then he also 



11. With assiduous offerings to the planetary deities — did in his own 

 pleasure gardens, from which are gathered noble garlands of flowers 

 woven as it were from the Sesbana grandiflora — [seek to propitiate 

 the immortals]. 



12. But though the glories of greatness, of clemency, and of warlike prowess 

 were in him blended into one, as [the several colours] in the 

 pure white rays of the moon ; yet was there at this time no [remis] 

 sion of his past grievous offence. 



13. Still not his was the path of those devoted to the present life, nor any 



dereliction of the wisdom and power which belongs to contemplative 

 sages; nor was there any poetical censurer of him, whose gifts were 

 without end. 



* The great Rajas of India have frequently heen polygamists — and in these cases, 

 the father and mother of each wife, as well as those of the sole rightful queen, bear the 

 honourable names of svasura and svasti (socer and socrus), i. e. father and mother-in- 

 law. The mothers-in-law here appear to have been independent princesses, whose 

 daughters were thus won in battle by Samudra Gupta, and seem to me undoubtedly 

 those, whose homage to the conqueror is described as increased by their alliance and 

 hope of royal offspring, in lines 18, 19. With respect to the grievous sin for which 

 his repentance is recorded in line 12, the incompleteness of the line precludes all but 

 the merest conjecture. — On the 6th and 7th lines it may be remarked that the heroic 

 ages of India efford examples of Brahmanical military tutors to young Rajas, — 

 who like Drona are said to have united great skill in war to eminent contem- 

 plative devotion. 



