m THE ISLAND OF BALI;. . 167 



encrease^ Ms sta'ure and magnified his bulk like the God Kalatak^a who fills tha universe— EnMo 

 ged. he raised his voice wi(h a «hoat which seemed to shake the earth. — His aspect was terrible as that 

 cf llwnRA., threatening to crumble tile wofid to atoms, lie beat his bow and discharged a flioning 

 arrow wliich illumined the firtnameiit. — Again he increased his sta'ure — bade defiance to his foe, and 

 advancing upon hsin, utiempted to sever his head from his body. Karna, whose v?eapon3 were near 

 ezpended, felt aUrmed for his situation and said to himself, <' I am destined to fall bjr the hands of 

 thesoH of BiMA," — At length he had recourse to the divine weapon Kunta, He discharged the bloK- 

 ing' dart at the son of Bima, which entering his breast, tran.Sxcd his bodf . — Th« wound arrested tba 

 progress of the warrior; but recovering himself for a mom-nt, he agsin alvauced upas his fas> 

 resuJving he should perish with him. The descendant of the Sui* eluded the blow by leaping 

 from his chariot, and the King of Prabai/a s>^\i'mg upon the driver, draiiged him along with him to 

 tlie regions ®f tiie dead. — Do&vodana and the Kurawa rejoicing at whit they beheld, set up a shoQ4 

 of esultatiun— »notsa tho ch-iefs of tke Fandu army -^ the]; turned pde at llie sig^H) aad with ibeia all 

 V7as iaEoentation.. 



NOTE BY TUB SECRETARY, 

 The Episode gi^en aboTo, by the author of the preceding paper, sgrec6 generally with 6he s»me rs U ifr 

 Darrated in the o riginal Mahahharat %^cx\htA to VyIsA, but it differs fMm th*t narrative in so man/ 

 respects, that it can scarcely be called even a paraphrase of the S'anscrit Poem. It is more probabljr 

 a transiaiioaof some other worli of siiailar name and subj^'Ct^, as tha J-Aimiai Bharala lot instanc,^ 

 which I am told i'S well known in the eroutb of India, or i( has been translated frona a version into^ 

 one of the local dialects, most of which possess a translation or paraphrase of the Mahabhorat. k, 

 slight descijptiua of ths original will tend to corroborate thede sugg93(ti>U9e. 



The combat between the Rdcshasa, Ghat o'tcacha, amd tbe Prince CiiRN a, ib the course of e 

 nocturnal engagement between the fa; (^'ai'a and C'ai^'wz'a annie^'jjs related iu the Dibna Parba^ 

 9r the seventh canto of the Mihdbhdrat ^ the descripiiun is however much more detailed than in tha 

 Cawi poem, and t-stends through no fewer than 358 stanzas. Agreeably: too to the general style of 

 the Sanscrit poem, the story is thrown more into • dramatic or interlocutory form than appears to be 

 adopted iu the Cawi poem. The hero of this battle is Carn'a ; he has committed great 

 baTock amongst the Idndava fores, and at thu htad of • portion of Duri^hd-^ 

 nana'* army is on ihe point of gaiQiug a decisive victory — when Ghat' 'tcacha is instigated b/ 

 i^RliUN A to en.le..vour to arrest his progres?. The encouragement given him by Crisrn a Is repeated 

 by AnjuHA and the lidchasa proceeds to the enco^inter, vaunting &ad confident of success. 

 */Bi HN A a compunctious fe>-ling9 and attcmp' to repress UU ardour, do not occur ia the original, 

 Ghatotcachiis first opposed by ti.e son of J*t'a sura, namedin the i^aTifC/i/ indifferently Alam- 

 B&i.A or Jatasuri; -h- <«u£« of q,«ritl»nd .-haracter of this enemy ara fimilarly described io 

 loth works, and Ghat o tcacua Ua«iog d«f«Ateil and decai)it«ted him, presents his head, as deicriM 



