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CantosV-VII. of the poem are taken up, according to the rules of Sanskrit epic poetry, with descriptions of the seasons, and the Sports and festivities in which Hammira engaged. These cantos, as not possessing any historical value, may be ignored in this precis of the poem. I pass over a long lecture also on Nitiástra which Jäitrasingh, the father of Hammira, is made to deliver to Hammira. Chaand gives a similar dissertation on grammar in his Prithvirája Rấsam.
With these introductory remarks, I come to the Purvaja Varnanam, i. e., the account of the ancestry of Hammira; ; and, in order to give some faint, idea of the author's style of writing, I shall, in the following, attempt some sort of translation of the first few reigns. The syle throughout is so ornate, inflated, and redundant, and the tendency of the author to punning is so persistent, that a longer translation is as difficult as the task would be tedious —
“Once upon a time, Brahma wandered in search of a holy place where to hold a sacrifice. Tho lotus which he held in his land fell on the ground, as if unable to bear the superior beauty of the lotus-like palm of the god. The god from this circumstance regarded the spot, where the lotus fell as an auspicious one, and there, freed fröm anxiety, commenced the sacrifice, Anticipating persecution from the Danavas, the god remembered the thousand rayed one (the Sun), when a being, his face surrounded by a halo of radiance, came down from tho orb of the sun. Him, the destroyer, Brahma appointed to the work of protecting the sacrifice.
I. “From that day the place where the lotus fell has been called Pushkara, and he who came down from the sun the Chohan[१]. Having obtained the paramount power from the
- ↑ The Chaturbhuja” Chohan, as described by Ted, issued, like the other three proġonitors of the Agnilkulas--Parmvira, Parihara, Chalukyaa-from the Agni Kunda, the sacrificial fire fountain. But the genesis is described differently in different books. Perhaps where there is no truth we must not exepect find concord.
