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ed their ramparts and being disappointed of a firm shelter there, imme- 

 diately came out and are wandering here and there ; whose (the raja's) 

 mind was devoted from his childhood to the occupations of numerous bat- 

 tles and whose station was praised by the assembly of heroes. 



18. The hands of this raja were not for a moment inactive, — towards 

 his foes in firing arrows drawn home to his ear,— among the assembly of 

 polite men in hold the darvha (sacrificial grasses) moistened with the 

 drops of water, for consecrating gifts, — and among bashful lovely-eyed 

 women in loosening their waist cloths. 



19. The smoke of whose burnt-offerings plays over the world, making 

 it appear as though the banks of rivers are skirted with Tdpinja trees, — 

 that the sky is involved in thick clouds and all the trees of the earth 

 seem to be covered Marakatas (emeralds) and most of the pearls seem 

 to be changed to the color of sapphires. 



20. The wishes of honest men tired with wandering for wealth in the 

 forest of Kulpa trees, in the broken mountains, in mines of gems, and on 

 the shores of oceans, are at last lying under the canopy of his cloud-like 

 feet for rest, (i. e. he has fulfilled their wishes.) 



SI. He (the raja) who was like Rudra in Pralaya (the end of a Kalpa) 

 and born from the race named Gandhapavana and the first of those who 

 were praised by the famous heroes, governed this earth. Whom when the 

 contending rajas beheld when leading their expeditions for victory, they 

 were struck with wonder and exclaimed, "What is this?" their whole 

 thick army being at once put into confusion ! 



22. Even Saraswati' (the goddess of wisdom) having lived in his 

 mouth gained the title Padm&laya (whose dwelling-place is the lily) 

 which LakshmI enjoys in three worlds. 



23. The wives of the interior of the raja who were always seeing his 

 beauty, when he played with them on the top of the lofty cloud-reaching 

 palace and cast his eye on the damsels, shrunk under it, yet still courted 

 it, coquetting in gesture and motion through evident desire. 



24. By him who was like Indra on earth were granted to the brahma- 

 nas many famous villages with high buildings; which (villages) contained 

 many fruitful and smooth fields and were pleasant with the sound of the 

 geese that were sporting in the sands of the rivers near, and the rice of 

 which became the best of its kind when boiled. 



The victorious and honorable emperor Kes'ava Sena Deva, who was 

 possessed of fame, the king of the three sorts of rajas, namely, Aswnpati, 

 Gojapati and Narapati, like the sun in expanding the lily-like Sena caste, 

 the lamp of the lunar line, famous as Karna in gifts, veracious as 

 Ga'ngeya (the son of Ganga', or Bhi'shma) a cage hard as Btijra to the 

 refugees, the most rich, learned, the great hero, the king of kings, the 

 destroyer of his enemies, and entitled Sankura Gaureswara, who was a 

 dutiful son of Laksmana Sena entitled also Sankara Gaureswara; who 

 (Laksmana Sena) achieved his own fame, suppressor of his enemies and ai- 



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