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named like the first, Gu'vaka. From him sprung Chandana, the bless- 

 ed, inspiring terror into kings, of rays which, [like the sun's,] produced 

 showers, who, having once without repetition proudly smitten his foes 

 in the fearful onset of war, obtained glory by this act, and was 

 worthily possessed of the full felicity of conquest. 



XV. — Then came his son, the great king, the fortunate Vakpati, 

 supremely glorious, perpetually victorious in war, foremost in 

 battle. 



XVI. — By whom, possessing a fierce army that loosed the reins 

 altogether from their coursers, even Tantra-pala, the possessor of 

 conquered regions from the serpent that bears the whole earth, the 

 well-pleased governor of earth with its innumerable regions, — even 

 he, having his elephant terrified and driven into a lake by the sounding 

 cymbals of the hostile war-elephants, was forced to wander through 

 various countries, overwhelmed with the shame of defeat. 

 A hero speaks the following verse. 



XVII. — The son of this fortunate king, Vakpati, was the incom- 

 parable Sinha-raja, who is sung in this terrestrial world, as equal to 

 the great Harischandra, whose fame was spotless in the surpassing 

 excellency both of liberality and dominion, and whose justice was re- 

 splendent ; by whom money procured without deceit was spent upon 

 Hara (or Siva) for this sacred temple. 



XVIII. — By whom was placed on the top of the house of Siva, his 

 own appropriate emblem, the golden figure of a full moon, and also 

 his eight proper forms. 



XIX. — By whom, — when he had slain, together with Lavana, the 

 leader of the hostile spears, proud of the command of armies, — the 

 kings of men in every direction were annihilated in war through 

 his victorious might, and many also who had opposed his messengers, 

 were detained in a capacious prison of stone : — yet for the liberation 

 of this very king (Sinha-raja) a conqueror of the world of the race 

 of Raghu voluntarily interposed. 



XX. — This was the fortunate Vigraha-raja, resembling Vasava, 

 [or Indra,] when he had performed his adoration [on this same 

 mountain, to the same deity] ; by this young prince were the wealth 

 of the race and the prosperity of victory, both rescued from de- 

 struction . 



XXI. — [For he it was] by whom, when the wealth of the kingdom, 

 deprived of [her husband] Sinha-raja, inquired, as in terror, " Who 

 now will be my Lord ?" She was peacefully answered — " Dwell thou 

 in my two arms," — thus affording her a lasting resting place. 



