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match for you : let the diamond be joined with gold." The maid, her 

 countenance radiant with love, as with the bridal garland accepted the 

 youth ; unable to speak, her wishes were expressed by the erection of 

 her hair through pleasure ; on the youth's neck she placed the yellow 

 garland fair. " Behold the rains of the lunar orb joined with the moon 

 free from clouds. Behold Ganga mixed with the ocean, receptacle of 

 waters ;" such exclamations burst from all the citizens. On one side 

 stood the joyful friends of the bridegroom, on the other the gloomy 

 circle of kings, the assembly resembled a lake where at early dawn the 

 lotus blooms, while the waterlilies are buried in slumber. 



The royal pair entered the streets of Vidarbha which were strewed 

 with branches of trees and shaded from the heat by martial banners. 

 The women having left their other occupations, crowded to the windows 

 to gaze, all their senses were concentrated in the eye ; 15hoja Raja of 

 Vidarbha having handed down Aja from an elephant, conducted him 

 into the house, and seated him on a throne, loaded him with diamonds, 

 the Argha and Madhuparka, a pair of silken garments, which having 

 put on, Aja went to Indumati, drawn as is the ocean's wave to shore, 

 by the influence of the lunar orb. Then the priest of Bhoja, having 

 offered ghi and other things to Agni, which he made a witness, united 

 the pair in wedlock. The bride of partridge eyes cast grains 

 into the flames, from which a wreath of smoke arose encircling 

 her ears as with a garland fair. The royal pair mounted on a golden 

 seat were sprinkled with moistened grains by heads of families and 

 aged matrons. The rejected kings hiding their wrath under the guise 

 of joy, resembled a tranquil lake beneath whose surface alligators lurk. 

 Bhoja Raja accompanied Aja for three days and then returned. The 

 rejected kings then anxious to carry off the jewel bride, beset king 

 Aja's way, who received the attack of his royal foes as Sone with 

 swelling waves mingles with Bhagirathi's stream ; then foot met foot, 

 horse horse, and chariot chariot, each engaged in single combat. The 

 lineage of the combatants could not be heard by the trumpeter's voice, 

 but written on the arrows they were announced to the foe. 



Clouds of dust wrapped in a veil the sun ; fish-emblazoned banners 

 imbibing this dust appeared as real fishes drinking turbid water. In this 

 darkness arising from dust obstructing the path of the eyes, the blood 

 flowing from the wounds of horses, men and elephants, which resembled 



