1852.] Analysis of the Raghu Vans a. 47 i 



made fragrant by the sandal-wood, he wore a robe of silk on which 

 was wrought the figure of swans, his dress shone in a golden mirror 

 as the shadow of the celestial tree at sun-rise on the top of Meru's 

 mount. His course from youth to the throne was like the moon when 

 she attains her full-orbed greatness. 



Except after smoke the brightness of fire is not seen, but he shone 

 out at once with all his virtues ; the women accompanied him with their 

 eyes shining through joy, as the polar star in a bright autumnal night. 

 Atithi himself administered justice daily, giving to the citizens the 

 ripe fruit of the testimony furnished, ne only violated his promises 

 in favour of his enemies, though a youth he was firm as a deep-rooted 

 tree. He sent out spies as rays which made all know as clear as the 

 sun in a cloudless sky — he slept at his own suitable time but watched 

 by emissaries — his successful aims well planned ripened secretly like 

 grains of rice lying hid in the stalk — even at the height of prosperity 

 he never swerved from the right way as the salt sea however swollen 

 still enters into the mouths of rivers, he never attacked his inferiors, 

 as the blazing forest flame though aided by the wind does not assault 

 the water. He valued alike the honest, agreeable and useful. He 

 accumulated wealth to give to others as the cloud filled with water 

 supplies the chataka. As the magnet draws the strength of iron, so did 

 he the power of his enemies. The merchants travelled on the rivers* 

 as on lakes ; in forests, as in gardens ; in mountains, as in their houses ; 

 as an elephant by its smell alone drives away other elephants, so did he 

 his enemies by the prestige of his name. Atithi did not decline like 

 the moon or ocean. He held the applications of poor but honest men a 

 benefit to himself as are the clouds to the ocean, like the rising sun 

 he dispelled darkness by the sense of truth. Although the rays of 

 the moon enter not the nelumbium, nor the rays of the sun the lotus, 

 yet his virtues penetrated the enemy, by his good qualities he became 

 King of kings. 



A son was born, named Naishadha : the father, whose deeds in spotless 

 purity equalled the Nympheea, ascended to heaven ; the son of lotus 

 eyes and mind profound as ocean's stream, governed the ocean-girdled 

 earth after him ; his son Nalus of fire like power. trampled on his enemy 

 as the elephant does reeds. His son Nabhasi's body was fair as the azure 

 vault of heaven, in his old age he formed friendship with wild beasts. 



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