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splendour, in extreme regions (surpassing in whiteness) the water 

 cast off from the trunks of elephants with their long breathings, 

 and in the firmament (deriding) the spotless and pleasant beams of the 

 moon full in her digits. 



26. He by his truth, gravity, greatness, power, liberality, and 

 might, had far overcome the Dharmay (Yudhisthera) the sea^ 

 the mountain, the sun, Kama the king, and the son of Maruta 

 ( Bhima). 



28. The moon finding this world whitened by the moon of his 

 fame, takes her rise as if with shame* even to this day. 



29. The wifet of Abja (Brahma) whoj is like an oblong pond on 

 the firmament, as it were, sings his extended fame (praise) in Devene 

 temples, to the sounds of musical instruments and songs, and in groves 

 by the utterance of prayers and hymns of sacrificers. 



30. Large quantities of gold, elephants, horses, lands, wives, § silver, 

 and jewels were his usual gifts : and he, though very moderate 

 of speech, yet was himself Vahubak.|| 



Because he gratified the appetites of the people of all classes, 

 and was himself in company with the learned, numbers of most 

 mighty Rajas had been constantly coming to him, mounted on their 

 various elephants, horses, and litters, to pay the respects due to his 

 highness. To Vanamala, who was skilful, the king of kings, very rich, 

 and devoted to the feet of his parents, and whose mind was attached 

 to the supreme Deity, was Louhitya Sindhu the sagelF as a friend. 



Its water was made fragrant with the scent arising from the 

 flowers dropped from the creeping plants moved by the long drawn 

 breathing of the serpents, startled at the cries of the wild peacocks 

 and various other birds reposing on the lofty trees of the eastern 

 mountain, while all sides were occupied by the numerous elephants, 

 horses, and foot soldiers of Vanamala. 



Further, its streams were intermixed with the odorous water of the 

 clouds, composed of the gashes of the Kalaguru trees (black aloe wood) 

 burning by the conflagration of its adjacent groves. 



The inhabitants near its banks were all delighted with the smell 

 arising from the musk of the deer, which were in diiferent places col- 

 lected, grazing on the fragrant pastures of the Eastern mountain, and 

 further of those that were in many places killed by the wolves, as well 

 as by NatU7'e, and were left unconsumed thereon. 



Further, its streams were more sacred than those of others, from their 

 continually washing the sides of the mount Kdmakutay which is inha- 

 bited on its tops by Kdmeswara (a Siva) and Mahd Gouri (his wife) 

 whose footstools are brightened with the crown jewels of all the Suras 



* The black spots that are generally visible in her, are usually described by poets 

 as the marks of her disgrace and shame. 



t Saraswati. 



:^ I cannot conceive what the poet means by this metaphor, 



^ By his giving wives, is meant that it was his custom to assist those with expenses 

 whom the want of money rendered unable to marry. 



II This word is of two meanings, one who talks much, and of whom men speak much. 



IT Here the river is personified as a sage. In Sanscrit the river Brahmaputra is said 

 to have been a male river. 



