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24. When the might of Suchiverma excited in heaven, the admiration of Indra, 

 and was the burthen of the songs of the brides of the sweet-voiced Gandharhas, the egg 

 of Brahma was irradiated by the splendid fame of Naraverma, divesting the cheeks of the 

 wives of his foes of the hue that excited desire. 



25. When he tasted pleasure in the embraces of the damsels of paradise,* KfRTTi 

 Verm A, like another Indra, protected the earth. 



26. This prince having felt compassion for the flames which reduced their delicate 

 forms, and sported with the beautiful- browed damsels of the sky, in the celestial Ganges, the 

 King of the world having slain the associates of his foes, compelled them to bow their fore- 

 heads to his footstool.f 



27. This king having passed away, his enemies being utterly overthrown, Vairi Sinh 

 established in the world his claim to that appellation. 



28. Broad-chested, slender-waisted, unappalled by the shouts of conflict, Vijaya 

 SiNHA next destroyed his elephant-like enemies. 



29. Of the wives of his foes, the beauty was dissipated along with the tint of their per- 

 sons, and by the passion of their hearts, through separation from their lords, whence the state 

 of the Kernikdra was produced, which possesses intei'nally redness, and is externally yellow : 

 a change of colour suitable to its cause. 



30. After him, Ari Sinh inscribed the eulogium of his fame on all regions, with the 

 ink blackened with the smoke of those fires of his prowess, in which the monarchs, his 

 enemies, had been consumed. 



31. By whom the collyrium of the wives of his enemies stained with tears, was applied 

 as an unguent to the eye-lashes of the brides of the immortals. 



32. His person was as splendid as the sun, and his golden eight-footed footstool 

 was illuminated by the diadems, set with gems, which bound the brows of the prostrate 

 Chola monarch.:}: 



* By this expression, and that in the preceding- verse, we are to understand that these princes 

 fell in battle : elevation to Indra's heaven, and the charms of its nymphs being the reward of those 

 who fall in fight. 



f There is, however, something wrong in the verse, and it seems likely that we should have the 

 proper name in it of another prince. Kshoniswara may be a proper name, instead of an epithet, but 

 it is not ordinarily so used. 



X Or the four-footed ; he being on his hands and knees ; the ashtapuda pddapitha having the 

 chatushpdt Chora nareswara, for the sake of the antithesis. 



