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INTRODUCTION.
(91.) Many times that sainted man spent in pious gifts, the
wealth earned by his great qualities which were the wonder of
the Universe, at Prayága, chief of Tirthas, where in the guise
of Yamuna the sword of Dharma, the destroyer of Kali, enters,
as it were, the sheath of the waters of the heavenly stream.
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(92.) Bathing in the celestial stream, that eases with its
the fatigue of Dharma, when he comes to its shores from
fear of roaming Kali, he destroyed in Banáras the stains arising
from the fortuitous meeting with wicked princes.
(93.) When Karna the great prince of Dáhála the destroyer of
the Lord of Kálinjara, who in his expedition made poor in princes
by the sound of the hoofs of his horses, the land of the Tukkha-
ras, met the famous poet, he drank deeply of the neotar of poetry.
(94.) Bilhana cooled with the streams of his song Ayodhya,
the capital of Sita's hushand, the slayer of Pulastya's off-
spring who, not contented with the crystal mountain, placing
it in his left stretched forth for a moment his right towards
Himalaya.
(95.) When in the palace of the lord of Ddhala he conquered
Gangadhara, the tale of him who in sport overthrew his rivals
in poetry, came, I ween, to the ears of Indra silencing in the
caves of the East the hum of the bees that were drunk with
the ichor flowing from Airâvata's temples.
in pitiful
(96.) Simulating the cooing of the pigeons that nested on
the lofty turrets of her gates, Dhárd cried to
tones: "Bhoja is my king.
princes Woe is to me!
presen
He, forsooth, is one of the vulgar
yo
Why didst thou not come into his
(97.) Visiting Somanátha, he eased the pain, that came over
him when on his road he made acquaintance with the
Gurjaras. Loose they wear their lower garments aud alys
careless of purity they use words that are worthy of blame.
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