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aboTS, to S0yo''DMANA, the eamc name, and the same person also »s Dobto'dhana, the chief of tlie 

 Cunis. Ill tb« Sanscrit^ Ghat o't'c acha addresses thai Prince in nearly the same words as in the 

 'Cccwi, anJ 'he comnnencemeat of this passage is the only one in which I have bseu al)le to detect a 

 dose, approximalion. '^ Here is your relation"— whose overthrow by me yo" h^ve bt-held — I shall 

 goon return fo you with (h« head of Carn A for a« offering, for" he adds, quoting a well.knowtt 

 text, '" Priests, princes and women are not to ba approached without a present ;'• the ■nalogy ia 

 this case therefore being Hmiled to the first three or four, words. Ghato'tcacha ihn presses for- 

 ward (o encootifcer Carn a, and a furious battle ensues belwepu them and the forces under their com- 

 ^nand. Carn'a begins to recedej when another Macshasa^ named in the origiikall Alayudha, and In 

 tlie ifazoi, Kalayudha comes to his -itssistaacc, buriiine; for revenge upon Bhima, tlie father of 

 Ghatotcacha wIio had formerly slain Baca, Ki'km/ra, and IlmiMBA, kindred Ra'c-.hasas, and 

 carried ufF Hirimba', the daughter of the latter, Alayudha is first opposed at a disadvantage bjr 

 BuiMA, and the Pa'n'dava Princes hasten to his aid, but the demon still prevailing, Crishn a directs 

 Ghat'^o Vcacha to desist from following np his advautages against Carn'a, and to relieve the Princes 

 contending with his fellow fitndj The disposition of the fight iJ accordingly changed and the two 



: Mu'cshasas encounter each other whilst C;arn a is opposed by his Pa'nVava brethren. None of 

 ^hi(J» incidents are coticed in the translation of the Cawi composition. Alayudha is sbin bj 

 GhatVt cacha -who then resumes his attack upon CAR^'A —rafter a sufficient portion of tumult and 

 liavock, and a plentiful expenditure of ammunition both human and divine, the conflict terminates 

 in the death of Carn'a in a manner much the same as is described above— a compressed trsnslatisn 

 of tliis part of (he poem, for it is impossible to do justice to the prolixity and reiteration of the ora* 

 ginaj, will perhaps be regarded as the most satisfactory test of the resemfelaaco or diBSlnaUiluilo of 



- 4hc Sanscrii v^udi.Gawi poemSj^Hi I therefore subjoin it. 



TRANSLATION. 

 SANj&TA.—Whan Ghat'q^t'cacha found that Casn'a maiutained the combat undismayed, -hs 

 'firmed himself with a mighty shaft, and hurling it at the ho 1568 and charioteer ..cf (tha .Prince, slew 

 thctn aud iustanlly vanished into the air* 



DHRrxARAiHTRA,— Tell 016 thcii Sanjaya wliftt befe! my cliMrta^ CQat^ndlag/withso lasidioiie 



•a foe. 



SAKjAyA.—Thc disappearatice of theRA'CSHASA-^nefi all thesoivsof CuRU with dismay, and t!jc| 

 despaired of their valiant champion, cspo&ed to combat with an suvisibie enemy; but the htro skilled 

 in fight, scattered with prompt and unwearied hand his countless and pervading arrows — they filled 

 •the heavens as it were with a cloud, aud spread such siiipenetrable gloom (hat Ghat'o't cacha ne 

 longer beheld the moretnentji of the Pfiaceo Theo, oh monarch ! we saw in the sky a magick meteof 

 .■&^ tie^Qiendqus &^d^^femalfom, glov?ia^\TUU red ftad fiery .sploadour, -aad-darljnj bl«izing -iotch^. 



