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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.
Slökās 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
(Kampaņa'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 vira-swarga after a heroic
end may pierce the sun in their journey to that
destination).
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.
30
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.
Slökās 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
(Kampaņa'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 vira-swarga after a heroic
end may pierce the sun in their journey to that
destination).