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MADHURAVIJAYAM
64. Others, feigning death, dropped down; but
fearing the presence of jackals, they at once rose up
and started running pell-mell, affording no small mirth
to the Karnāta forces.
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65. Yet others, mistaking a mirage for water
(river) made futile attempts to cross it with a boat
improvised out of the shields which they had forgotten
to abandon (in their flight).
66. There were still others who in their flight
mistook their own shadows for the pursuing enemy in
the extremity of their fright and began to prostrate
before them, biting their fingers.
Slōkās 67 to 83: The batlte on Rājagambīrānmalai. The
defeat and destruction of the Sambuvaraya by Kampana.
67. King Kampana, then converted the Tamil
king's town into an encampment for his own forces,
and from there began to lay seige to the hill fortress
named Rājagambhīra (Rājagambirammalai) in which
the enemy had sought asylum.
68. The sound of his war-drums raised echoes
from every cave of the hill and it looked as if the hill
itself had begun to yell out in fright.
69. With flags flying in the direction of high
winds, the hill (fort) gave the impression that it was
greeting king (Kampana) and welcoming him with
its arms (the flags) to come to its top.
70. Again, fierce fighting commenced between the
two sides, and the weapons falling down and shooting
up, lit up both earth and sky by their resplendance.
64. Others, feigning death, dropped down; but
fearing the presence of jackals, they at once rose up
and started running pell-mell, affording no small mirth
to the Karnāta forces.
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65. Yet others, mistaking a mirage for water
(river) made futile attempts to cross it with a boat
improvised out of the shields which they had forgotten
to abandon (in their flight).
66. There were still others who in their flight
mistook their own shadows for the pursuing enemy in
the extremity of their fright and began to prostrate
before them, biting their fingers.
Slōkās 67 to 83: The batlte on Rājagambīrānmalai. The
defeat and destruction of the Sambuvaraya by Kampana.
67. King Kampana, then converted the Tamil
king's town into an encampment for his own forces,
and from there began to lay seige to the hill fortress
named Rājagambhīra (Rājagambirammalai) in which
the enemy had sought asylum.
68. The sound of his war-drums raised echoes
from every cave of the hill and it looked as if the hill
itself had begun to yell out in fright.
69. With flags flying in the direction of high
winds, the hill (fort) gave the impression that it was
greeting king (Kampana) and welcoming him with
its arms (the flags) to come to its top.
70. Again, fierce fighting commenced between the
two sides, and the weapons falling down and shooting
up, lit up both earth and sky by their resplendance.