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sickness shall ever approach his immaculate body. Knowing this 

 to be the reward, repeat the legend of the moon-god ; in no other 

 way can such a result be obtained. Wealth shall abound, your house 

 shall stand fast, and your's shall be the victory in the battle. Who- 

 ever shall thrice hear the legend of Chandra -brahma, though childless, 

 he shall have a son with abundance of wealth in a strong house 

 What Vyasa declared to Anangpal, that Chand repeats to the king's 

 family.* Now the bardf relates in lengthened strain the war between 

 the Chandels and Chauhans. 



The subject of the third canto has been already indicated. Par- 

 mal assembles a force of Chandels, Solankhis, Jadavs, Gaharwars, 

 Gahlots, Bais Thakurs, Jhangras and Baghels against the 50 wound- 

 ed Chauhans, and at length succeeds in cutting them to pieces, but 

 not until his army has sustained a loss of 4000 men ! The canto 

 concludes as follows : 



Translation of the latter part of Canto III. 



Alhan went home and there in the presence of Udal declared his 

 secret thoughts to his mother : " The king is dull of soul ; this land, 

 nay, the whole world knows it ; his judgment is gone, he listens only 

 to Mahil." Divalde, on hearing the sound speech of her son Alhan, 

 said " Regard not the errors of the king, but do your duty to your 

 lord. Hanuman did his master faithful service ; the whole world 

 reverences Kama's messenger. Though the king has lost his senses, do 

 not you break his orders." Alhan having heard his mother's advice 

 went to the Court. The king rose trembling, all the Chandel princes 

 made obeisance. Alhan enters the council-chamber and addresses 

 Parmal : " The wounded have been wantonly slain, and their goods 

 plundered. Cursed, cursed be the slaughter of the wounded, and the 

 death of men whose lives should have been held sacred. Hear my 

 warning, the name of Kshatriya has been disgraced." All good 

 men rejoiced as they heard Alhan's stern speech, but it fell as a 

 thunder-bolt on the heart of the king. Says the king Mahil in a rage : 

 " Hear, son of Dasarath, you have spoken bitter words to a king, in 



* * The king's family.' This I take to be meaning of the word rdtval, 

 Prakrit for rdjakula. Or it may be simply ' you,' as rawau. 



f ' The bard.' In the original ray, a word which most bhdts at the present 

 day take as an affix to their name. 



