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10. His younger brother Sri Raghava was a prodigy of merit. 
Gallant (in his bearing,) an ornament of creation like the sun (Pusha). 
11. The son of Sri Mame was the poet Sri Ratna Sinha. The 
arms* of his mighty deeds, spread, scattered and refulgent every- 
where, white as the light of the Kundat} flower or the moon, 
have enveloped the earth. He flourishes, the trampler of his excited 
opponents, the pleasure ground of fortune, the receptacle of urbanity, 
good conduct, wisdom and virtue! 
12. The name of his wife was Rambha. Chaste and adored by 
her friends, she was to her husband what Sachif is to Indra, the 
mountain-born Girij4 to Sambhu,§ or the daughter of the ocean 
to the wielder of the discus.]| 
13. She bore a son renowned in all the three regions of the 
universe, who had eclipsed the high pride of his enemies, as well as 
of the learned, and was like unto a bee at the beautiful lotus-feet of 
Chandi and Isa.4] 
14. The earth around was enveloped by his fair fame bright as the 
foam of the sea. Milk-maids observing that wide-spread whiteness 
and mistaking it for the churning of the Kalindi with the serpent 
Kalanemink 5%) ee 
15. Clustering drops of melted nectar dwelt in his speech, which 
was as charming as the moon, and the mouth of the learned, like the 
beak of the Chakora,} pecked at them without intermission. His 
hands were the cage in which dwelt, (birdlike,) the beggars who 
crowded around him from various quarters. He was a royal{ tree of 
desire,§ which was well fitted to gratify this desire in profusion. 
16. His wife was the well-behaved Pratha, whose beauty had over- 
shadowed the charm of goddesses. She was like unto the light of 
* Lit. The creeper latd. 
+ Jasminum pubescens, Willd. J. hirsutum, Linn. 
~ Wife of Indra. 
§ Durgé, daughter of the Himalaya mountain and wife of S‘iva. 
|| Lakshmi produced by the churning of the ocean, and Vishnu whose chief 
weapon is a discus. 
@ Durga and Mahadeva. 
* The last part is unintelligible. Kalindi is the river Jumna, so called on 
account of her blue waters. 
+ A bird unknown to modern ornithology, but supposed by Indian poets to 
hover around the moon and live upon the nectar that exudes from the orb of 
that luminary. The word is also used to indicate the Tetras rufus vel Perdix rufa. 
+ Adhisa in the original; the epithet is of doubtful application. 
§ Kalpadruma a fabled tree which yields whatever may be sought of it. 
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