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33. His son was Vikrap^a Sinha, who obliterated the tale of the valour of his ad- 

 versaries, who compelled fate to avert his countenance, and whose sword, in battle, clove the 

 brows of opposing elephants. ' 



34. Who eradicating all thorns from every quarter, by the sport of his heroic armsj 

 established prosperity on earth. 



35. Whose glory is hymned by the delighted sprites of darkness, as on the field of 

 battle, making cups of the bowels of slaughtered warriors, they exclaim, drink, drink, and 

 wandering about in pairs, with hollow skulls, mantling with the intoxicating draught, 

 they quaff the sanguine beverage, and dance inebriate over the slain. 



36. Samanta Sinha was his son, by whose valour all other warriors were humbled, 

 and by whose beauty the charms of Kama were surpassed. 



37. KuMARA Sinha having baffled repeatedly hostile hosts, made the earth resplen- 

 dent, and united Laskshmi inseparably with the race of Guhila, and made her ashamed to 

 part from the descendants of Khomana. 



38. The next king was the victorious Mathana Finha, who humbled his enemies, 

 and derived his appellation* from the slaughter of adverse troops. 



39. Whose sword when sheathed, drank not the blood of his foes, and when unsheath- 

 ed, returned not to its scabbard without drinking their blood, and when opposed to his re- 

 doubtable antagonists, was grasped with both hands. 



40. After this the land of Meddjjdiaf was protected, and delighted by Padma Sinha, 

 whose power was as unbounded as that of Sesha. 



41. This scholar traced the praise of the prowess of his arms on the plate of the field 

 of fight, in letters made with the pearls fallen from the cleft brows of the fierce elephants of 

 his enemies. 



42. When he took his seat by the side of the sovereign of the gods Jaitra Sinha, 



undermining the fortune of the arms of ■ and proving an Agas- 



iya to the Sea of the Turmhlca armies, protected the earth .| 



43. The goblins that delight in the field of battle, celebrate the victorious arms of 

 Jaitea Sinha, as they are asked with an embrace by their infernal consorts, drunk with 

 the frontal moisture, for the tusks of the fallen elephant. 



* Mathanam, killing. 



f This name is borne out by a foregoing verse, No, 7. 



X The Moharanaedans. 



