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[No. 1, 
Kavi Rdj Slij'amal D^s —On the Prithi Rdj Rasa. 
25. On Nara Varma’s desiring to taste the delight of meeting the 
wives of the gods \i. e., when he entered Heaven], the earth was pro¬ 
tected by Kirti Varma, who was on a par with Indra in piety. 
26. On Kirti Varma’s,—who was very fierce, and weak from con¬ 
stant love (to acquire new possessions) and also devoted to very austere 
penances,—performing ablutions in (the sacred stream of) the Ganges 
(the Sindhu of Heaven) and sporting with the heavenly damsels, Bairad 
succeeded to the throne, who pulled down the houses of enemies Avith his 
hands, and had the forehead of his foes kept lower than his throne (in 
homage) on account of his valour. 
27. On the death of Bairad, a source of delight to the host of his 
enemies, succeeded Bairi Singh, Avho made his name quite significant, as 
he Avas a lion among his rivals. 
28. After him reigned a king Vijai Singh by name, who was a Lion 
with Victory for his title or surname, Avho had abroad chest and a slender 
waist, and caused mountains or (the hearts of) kings to tremble, even in 
sport; he was a destroyer of (elephants in the shape of) enemies. 
29. His enemies’ Avives, pressed down with grief for their hus¬ 
bands’ death, gave up the whiteness of their bodies with the sandal-paste 
applied to their breasts, and thus acted as it were the part of a Karnikar 
a species of the bread-fruit tree Lacucha) flower, which is red 
inside with a yellow coating on the outside. [In just the same way the 
interiors of their bodies Avere red, while the outside appearance was lan¬ 
guid and pale with grief]. 
30. (He was succeeded by) Ari Singh a great hero, who 
wrote doAvn inscriptions of his noble deeds in all the quarters, with the 
ink composed of the smoke (soot) rising from the corpses of his enemies, 
burnt (to ashes) in the fire of his energy (rage). 
31. Through his favour, learned* men’s wives were enabled to 
paint their eyelids with collyrium, and filled their eyes with tears of 
delight. On the other hand, he deprived the eyelids of his enemies’ 
wives of their collyrium (that was) washed away with tears of mourn¬ 
ing ; and thus it is wonderful that one and the same king produced 
double effects. 
32. From Ari Singh was born Ohond Singh, glorious as the Sun and 
brilliant like the crown-gem of princes, his throne shone over mountains 
as that of the Sun over Sumeru 
33. The son of Ohond was Vikram Singh, Avhose sword fell upon 
the temples of elephants (and cut them asunder), who overtook even 
* If is taken to mean ‘ gods’ wives,’ there would be an allusion to the 
belief that heroes killed in the battle-field become gods. 
