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Raghava, ^swineya, Vardhana, do you boast, calling yourself 

 a hero? away with your boasting, stop your pride. The cries that arose 

 day and night among the captive kings prevented the guards of the 

 prison-house from sleeping (at any time). 



The fleet which he equipped for conquering the western countries, 

 went up the stream of the Granges, and one of the ships became stuck 

 in the ashes which are on the forehead of Shiva, and which have been 

 changed into mud by constant mixture with the water of the Granges, 

 and being left there, shines as the moon. 



[The Hindu Shasters affirm that the Ganges proceeds from the 

 Jata (matted hair of Shiva), and hence this sloka means, that this 

 king having resolved to conquer up to the source of this river, one 

 of his ships going up the stream became stuck on the forehead oi 

 Shiva, where it shines like the moon.] 



Through his favour the wives of the rich Brahmins learned to make 

 diamonds from cotton seeds, black diamonds from grass leaves, silver 

 from the flower of long gourds, pearls from brittle cavities of pome- 

 granates, and gold from flowers of gourd-creepers and euphorbia. 



