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Pura'ri affumed a third eye in his forehead ; Pedma'Csha, foirr arms 5 

 Atmabhu' four faces ; that Ca'li n held a cimeter in her hand; Rama\ a 

 lotos flower.; and Va'ni v , a lyre. 



N O.T E. 



The fix names in the text are appellations of the Gods Maha'de'va, Vishnu, Brahma', and the 

 Goddeffes Durca', LacshmI', Sereswati'; they fignify, in order as they occur, the foe of Pura ot 

 ^ripura, the Lotos -eyed, the Self exifling, Female Time, the Delightful, and Speech. 



21. In the midft of his affembled foes, he darts a confuming fire kindled 

 by his wrath. Oh ! what faid I ? He dries up the feries of feven oceans 

 with the dull and fand of the whole earth trampled on by the cavalry of his 

 numerous armies, and prefently forms a new range of feas, blazing with 

 his meafurelefs glory, by the unbounded ftreams of thofe noble gifts, 

 among which the firft were a Mundane Egg and a golden figure of Meru. 



22. " May you long enjoy entire here below the felicity and wealth 

 " beflowed on you by me ! V Thus blefling mankind, and well knowing 

 the general obilacles to an afcent in the car of the fun towards the manfion 

 of the gods, he diftributed in all regions of the world thofe obeliiks, which 

 confer celebrity, and on which encomiaftick verfes are engraved by the 

 goddefs of abundance herfelf, that they might become the lafhes of whips 

 to quicken the horfes of the mountains. 



NOTE: 

 The extravagant imagery in- this couplet is connected with the old Indian cuftom of raifing pillars to 

 perpetuate the memory of great events, and with the belief of the Hindus, that the fouls of good men uafj 

 through the fun to their feat of happinefs. Although the Columns of Vitlory, as they are called were monu- 

 ments of kingly pride or of courtly adulation, yet the poet infinuates, that the donor intended to facilitate a 

 paffage to heaven for thofe whom he had enriched on earth ; and the mountains are animated, to become the 

 horfes of the fun's car and to be laihed by the royal obeliffe. 



