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32. The repository of the Vedas knowing that the only pleasure of this being, was 

 the destruction of his foes, gave him the name of Paramdra,* and from him the race so 

 named originated. 



33. Dhoma Raja was the first Prince descended from him, a mortal Indra in the 

 royal race, who made the monarchs of the earth acquainted with pain by clipping their 

 wings.f 



34. Dhunduka, Dhruva, and other hei'oes were born in this family, the overthrowers 

 of the elephants of their foes, and at last was born the lovely Rama Deva, who surpassed 

 Kama in appearance. 



35. His son was Yasodhavala, who was not overcome by Pradyumna, and the 

 waves of whose fame, tossing in the depth "of heaven and earth, washed away the white 

 splendors of the moon ; who defeated ValalaJ the King of Malava, when engaged in 

 hostilities against the Chauluhya Kumara Pala.§ 



36. Dhara Versha,^ the subject of universal praise, was his son; his sharp sword was 

 ever vigilant to assail the throats of his foes, who being incensed and firm in the field of 

 battle, the wives of the King of Concan shed watery drops from their lotus eyes. 



3T. He, with undiminished splendour, came upon earth as the son of Dasaratha, 

 and as in enmity to Marichi, pursues the chase with unrelaxing speed. 



* Para, an enemy, Mara, a destroyer : a race of Rajputs is still known so named, and is famous 

 in middle Indian History, under the name of Pamdr, or Pawdr. 



-j- These are puns again on Paksha, a partisan and a wing, and Bhuhhrit, a king, or a mountain. 



:}: Valala is said to have been the Patron of Kdlidus, after Bhoja, when the Poet left the 



Court of the latter in displeasure ; a verse in praise of him is cited in the Kuvalayananda. 



TITTT^^T ^^Tf\ f%l?T ^^-^^T!^ n^^R ^^^ ^ff^^T ^'^'^ ^T^% 

 Tr"T'm% ''t^il^T^^^ ^^IJlfF ^*Ff% " Valala, in the city of your foes, a woman of the 

 wilds, wandering unmolested, collects the scattered jewels, taking them for lighted coals, she piles 

 the sandal sticks upon them, and, with twinkling eyes, blows them with her breath, imagining the 

 clustering bees, attracted by the spreading odours, to be smoke." These conceits were never the 

 composition of Kdlidds. 



f The prince was sovereign of Guzerat at the end of the 12th century. , ' 



f See Inscriptions VIII and XVI. 



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