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MADHURAVIJAYAM
 
his lessons on talking and walking from his foster-

mother.
 
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37. Like a swan that ever loves the touch of

budding lotuses, the king was never satisfied with kis-
sing the fragrant mouth of his child with no teeth yet

sing the fragrant mouth of his child with no teeth yet
perceptible in it.
 

 
38. The pleasurable feeling which the king had
while embracing his cherub boy, was not to be matched

while embracing his cherub boy, was not to be matched
by the contact of camphor, pearl, sandal-paste or moon-

beams.
 

 
39. The king and the queen felt themselves bathed

in an ocean of nectar as they enjoyed looking at their
child crawling on his knees on the floor of the palace,

child crawling on his knees on the floor of the palace,
with the small bells in his ornaments tinkling.
 

 
40. Then, in course of time, the queen bore to the

king two other sons called Kampaṇa and Sangama who

were like pārijāta and çintāmani that sprang from the
ṇi that sprang from the
milky ocean.
 

 
41. The prince (viz, Kampanṇa), along with his

two brothers, began to grow, day by day; and people
were in ecstasies when they looked at him as at the

were in ecstasies when they looked at him as at the
(waxing) moon.
 

 
42. The king, with his three children, shone like
S
Śiva with his three eyes, the moon, the sun and the fire;
or like statesmanship, with its three unfailing aspects,

or like statesmanship, with its three unfailing aspects,
Power, Daring and Counsel; or like life with its three

ends, Virtue, Wealth and Enjoyment.
 

 
Thus ends the second canto of Virakamparāya

çaritam, called Madhurāvijayam, composed by Sri Gangā

Dēvi.