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MADHURAVIJAYAM
 
God Virūpākṣa (Śiva) who was enshrined there never

spent a thought about his original home at Alaka.
 

 
<error>Slöōkās</error><fix>Slōkas</fix> 67 to 75: Bukka as king. Of special interest is the

mention of Devaāyi, the queen of Bukka.
 

 
67. Installed in that city, he, of undiminished

prowess, ruled over the earth even as Indra ruled the

heavenly regions from his seat in Amaraāvati.
 

 
68. By contemplating on his prosperity that was
at the service of friends, and his politics that was wide

at the service of friends, and his politics that was wide
and comprehensive, his subjects imagined that Manu

himself had in him his second birth.
 

 
69. Though impartial to all the three <error>puruṣārtas—
dharma, artha and k</error><fix>puruṣāmarthas</fix>-the king, who was the idol
of all virtuous people, had a special regard for dharma,
-
dharma, artha and kāma-the king, who was the idol
of all virtuous people, had a special regard for dharma,
even as Vișnṣṇu, the Lord of all, has for satva, among his

three gunas-satva, rajas and tamas.
 

 
70. His hand gave freely, his ear heard the Sāstras

well, his head was always crowned with the sandals of

Lord SŚiva. The sense of decorative fineness that he

thereby evinced became the means of his achieving his

desire to get and keep prosperity.
 

 
71. The kings that ruled over the territories of

which the mountains of Vindhya, Malaya, Astha and

Rōhanṇa were the four boundaries paid homage to him

and those that were enemies shook with fear.
 

 
72. Always awake at his post of guarding the
kingdom that came to him from his ancestors in an
 

kingdom that came to him from his ancestors in an