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He was the divine treasury of justice, and formed a new ocean by the 

 breod flowing from the foes plain by his bright arms. 



19. \ He was the hud of Lahshmi* ; the opposer of Bali ; the beloved 

 friend of the herdsmen ; the never-failing one in all his undertakings ; the 

 Vishwuksena by whom the deluged world was raised; and the real Fish- 

 wambharu by his virtuous deeds in life. 



20. The earth, the mother of all creatures, was nourished by the 

 6t reams of his benevolence, and enriched with abundance of corn and 

 wealth. 



21. If his fame is bright as the necklace-like river Manddkini, where 

 united with the breast of the Kaildsa and Himalaya mountains, then where 

 is Shiva, ascending- to the top of the Chandra-shikhara mountain, if he 

 does not remove the stains from that moon, whose smiling face is bright 

 with light as the white jasmine or froth of the ocean ? 



22. This other great mountain Kaildsa, abounding with pure nectar, 

 was made a palace by Shiva's expending the wealth of this iNDRA-like 

 king, whose feet were rendered glorious by the rainbow, or reflection of 

 the rays from the gems on the heads of the obedient Surs and Asurs. 



23. Sumeru, with the residence of the gods, was injured by the hoofs 

 of this king's horses, also the eastern mountains, and the western peaks 

 were touched by Faranif : so the venerable Shiva, seeking after fresh 

 places, and having no settled temple, at last gained, with the king of 

 Lanka, this unparalleled mountainous habitation. 



24. By this victorious one inclosures were formed so high as to ob- 

 struct by their elevation the movements of the clouds. And here virtue 

 by Shiva's interposition, for fear of the aggression of the sea of wicked- 

 ness, took refuge. 



25. The women, the glance of whose eyes was all-subduing as a man- 

 tra, and the motion of whose feet made the three worlds motionless ; and 

 whose lamp or light was formed by their bracelets and jewels when they 

 began to dance — the^e deer-eyed ones were given by this king to Shiva. 



26. By him a garden was made like Indra's, shining bright with the 

 farina from the full-blown flowers, and constantly watered by the distilla- 

 tion of the juice of flowers, as by the sportive engine of K a/made va J. 



27. The star-like marks on the heads- of the elephants that are furious 

 in the spring, are nothing more than the dice spots of the sly Ka'madeva 

 set in crystal. There the white is made triumphant by the humming 

 bees covered with farina from the scattered flowers, which are the pearls 

 of the necklace of the wood. 



* This and the following are metaphors: the meaning is, that lie wa9 like the 

 persons mentionfd. 



"T Varani means the western horizon, and also spirituous liquor, by the touch of 

 which a person or thing is denied. 



I Cupid. 



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