Madhurāvijayam of Gaṅgādevī /125

MADHURAVIJAYAM
 
33. Like a row of clouds raining drops of water

on a mountain, the respectable matrons of the town,

showered the customary parched grain on him.
 
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34. As he marched in state, king Kampaṇa caused

a quiver in the hearts of his rivals, and turned to the

direction of the quarter which had the Malāya moun-

tains for its boundary.
 

 
Slöōkās 35 to 46: The orderly march of the Karnāta forces.
 

 
35. Leading such a huge army, the great hero

looked like the eastern wind dragging behind it a string

of heavy clouds.
 

 
36. The load of the earth having become lightened

by heaps of dust rising up, Ādisēṣa managed to bear the

weight of the royal army.
 

 
37. The dust that rose up acted simultaneously as

an eclipse of both the sun of prowess and the moon of

fame of the enemy (and thus effected a double eclipse

at the same time).
 

 
38. The aggregate of dust caused the illusion of

a huge dung heap capable of manuring the creepers of

(Kampaņṇa's) fame that had begun to sprout out in all

the quarters.
 

 
39. Under the pretext of being hidden away by

the dust, the sun (in fact) fled to some unknown

quarter, afraid that he might be pierced through by

warriors transformed into gods in the approaching

conflict. (Warriors who go to viīra-swarga after a heroic

end may pierce the sun in their journey to that

destination).