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Two 'Brahmem, who perufed this couplet, propofed to read Pdndya, of which they had before heard, 

 infteadof Pdnjya, which appears in the tranfeript. Had Madhurd been written inftead of Madhuri, there 

 could have been little doubt, that it meant one of the fouthem kingdoms : one of my Pandits thinks, that it 

 means Madura. 



12. From that chief of lion-like men, by two queens Tipwa'ji' and 

 Nagara', as from Dasarat'ha by the divine Causalya 1 and Sumi- 

 tra\ 



i 3. Sprang two valiant, yet modeft, heroes, like the two princes Rama 

 and Lacshmana, named Viranrisinhendra and Crishnaraya, 

 both lords of the earth. 



14. The famed Viranrisinha, having taken his feat in Vijayanagar 

 on a throne blazing with gems, far furpalTed in glory and policy the an- 

 cient kings Nriga, Nala, Nahusha, and, confequently, all other mo- 

 narchs on earth : from the fouthern bridge to Sumeru, the mountain beau- 

 tifully extendei on this globe, and from the eaflern, to the fartheft extremi- 

 ty of the weftern, hills, he dwelled in the hearts of mankind, and governed 

 his realms widi mild fway, 



NOTE. 

 All the kings, named in the three prrc^ng flanzp.s, are celebrated in the heroick poems of India; and 

 Vijayanagar, or the City ofConquef. :s eery generally known. The epithet avan'tfutanutah, which, if, it be 

 the fifth cafe, agrees with Sumeru, may agree, in the/?/ cafe, with the hero, and fignify applauded by the fort 

 oftheearth, that is by MANC/vLA.or the planet Mars, who gives his name to the third day of the Indian 

 and Gothick weeks. Trivedi Servo'ru contends, that it means, praifed by the fons of the earth, or by all 

 rttn born on it. 



15. He offered many prefents in the Golden Court, in the temple of the 

 three-eyed God, in the city of him, whom Ca'lahasti* owns as her lord, 



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