456 Analysis of the llayhu Vans' a. [No. 6, 



raised by wind bears the swan in Manasalake to another lotus, conduct- 

 ed the royal maid to another unsuccessful suitor, the king of Anga, 

 famed among the immortals for his beauty, whose elephants were tamed 

 by men who have written a code of instructions on the subject. 



Next came, bright as the risen moon, Avanti's lord, of long arms 

 broad chest and slender waist, noted for the line of kings that fol- 

 lowed in his conquering train. He like the sun on lotus flowers shed 

 the rays of his favours on his friends, but withering looks he gave to 

 his enemies as the sun dries up the muddy lake. To him succeeded 

 the king of Anurupa Kartavirjya the conqueror of Ravana, but he was 

 as little acceptable to the maid as in autumnal time the lunar orb to 

 lotus beds. Him followed the king of Srusena, the abode of virtue ; 

 in his house his beauty was as pleasing as the lunar beams to the eyes, 

 but as a river in its flow to the ocean passes by the mountain in its 

 course, so the royal maid passed over the Raja. 



Him followed Kalinga's monarch, lord of Mahendra, whose arms 

 retain the traces of the twanging bow, a dweller on the ocean where 

 the dashing waves, louder than the trumpet sounding the hours, gleam- 

 ing through the windows, awake from sleep ; the shore resounds with 

 the rustle of palm leaves, while from other isles the winds waft the 

 fragrance of the groves of clove — he was rejected. Next came Pandu's 

 king with garlands decked of yellow sandal leaves, as Himalaya, king 

 of mountains, tinged with the rays of the rising sun, but he made no 

 more impression on the maid than the lunar ray on lotus leaves, un- 

 closed, save when the sun appears. 



When the torch of the maid's presence was held up to a suitor, he 

 was cheered, but on her passing by he sunk again into the darkness of 

 despair. As she came to Raghu's son, he stood in suspense which was 

 soon removed by the agitation of her right hand. As bees once 

 lighting on the Sahakar tree desire no other, so the maid allowed no 

 other monarchs to approach. Sunanda now announced the ancestry 

 of Aja, " Sprung from Dilip, the light of his race : during his reign there 

 was such security that not even the breeze would disturb the garments 

 of a woman sleeping on the high road, much less would a man extend a 

 hand of violence : his son Raghu gave away for religious objects all his 

 store of wealth having only earthen vessels left, his glory reached 

 the skies and ocean's deep recesses, from him is Aja sprung, a suitable 



