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tiusion ; with the torch so furnished him, he had laid the whole city 

 in ashes, finally escaping unhurt in defiance of the utmost efforts of 

 the Giants : — hence the allusions in some of the following verses. 



Udmdyanam* 



■Thou hast caused a beautiful city to be devoured by the flames ; is it 

 right to desire tlie wife of one of another race and to detain her in captivity 

 as if thou hadst lost every kingly quality ? is any sin the wicked commit a 

 greater sin than this ? 



(aum-0(n)L^eS(^UJLOQS>p^jD p ^Sl<ss) p^eiJ ^ ^ [T 



Contrary to the precepts of religion^ thou hast detained in captivity and 

 overwhelmed with so7'7'oiv, a woman who was engaged in devotion, belonging 

 to the house of another, O perpetrator of violent acts ! and if in that day 

 the glory of the Araccar was obscured, would it be wise in us to sanction so 

 disgraceful an act ? 



/D ^ ^ /D ^ ^ Lo sr is^ IT O su 1^ JD supremo L-^rr^p 

 ^jD^^/Dihun'(SU'oa,suS]ujpj,vj§if<5>nLoiuim' 

 ^m<o^(rOmwr^(Hp(oiJ^e!i(^(ipp^P'S 



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 m'2eisriu<cuirPp^^2(5i!rLU!r<5niTfrpnSl(^(r, 



