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earth, whofe vail power is celebrated throughout the three worlds*: 

 the ftory of the extent of his extraordinary might is credited by 

 5» thofe who have witnefled the ftrength of his armsf. From whofe name 

 even, the king of Chidi,% vanquifhed in the fierce fight, ever quickly 

 flees; and the prince of Cdsi$ through dread, by his conciliatory 

 conduct always pafles his time in undifturbed tranquillity : by whom 

 the misbehaving lord of Mdlflva.\\ was in the fp ace of an hour exter- 

 minated; and at whofe court, other monarch?, by an increafe of con- 

 fidence, obtain peace. 



16. The field of battle being ploughed by the trampling of the 

 hoofs of his horfes impetuoufly charging, irrigated with the blood gulh- 

 ing from the throats of his enemies, fown with pearls, bright as the 

 pale- beamed luminary, from the heads of the elephants 8 !! of his foes, 

 yielded; glory, the creeping plant, which, being fprinkled with the wa- 

 ter of libation/ 1 ** overfpread the aflernbLy-houfe of Him+fr fprung from 

 the lotus. 



17. The venerable lineage of the minifters of thefe princes, the 

 Supporters of the weight of government, and of upright conduct, is 

 now to be detailed. 



♦ Hraven, e>rth, ;-nl hell. 



i It it here 10 be umlerftood that he w>$ 2 priuc* of gr;at athletic accimpl foments. 



X The fame, I b<lev 9 with Chahdail (as the name is written iu Major Riniiell'j Atlas, 1 , F. E. of the 

 province of Bundclc'hand. 



S Btnart,. r Ihc ordinal terra, * Ctf raja,' may however be affumed as .J,: proper name of fomc otbx- 

 ■chief; f »r i{ ij n >t an uquTual ope, 



1) S. W. of Bundelc'band. 



t The Hindus im.ginr that the fineft pearls we ti he found in r> fei.'s of clrphanti. 



•* Solemn gi/tmc r.tified by pouring water into tlic hands ol the terlon r ce rji^ thciB w - 



+i £t ihma, *ho f^rans frjm tl.c Ltu* which arofc from the oavd of Ynu *v. 



