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MADHURAVIJAYA M
 
7. The threshold of his palace was ever thronged

with elephants, and also kings waiting for audience.

The former made it muddy with their flowing ichor,

while the latter made it dry with gem-dusts falling

down from ornaments broken as a result of jostling.
 
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8. Every day kings that had cast off their old

enmity rubbed their forehead against his royal foot-

stool. And their resultant change of fortune suggested

the idea that new letters of prosperity were written on

their foreheads (in lieu of those that were already

there from their birth).
 

 
9. The royal threshold was always beseiged by

crowds of kings, such as of Magadha, Māļḷava, Sevuna,

Simhala, Dramila, Kērala and Gauḍa, waiting for an

opportunity to pay their homage.
 

 
10. On both sides beautiful damsels waved the

chowri, and in the jingling of their golden bracelet, the

voice of court bards singing panegyrics was almost
drowned.
 

drowned.
 
11. Kampaņṇa loved very much to listen to com-

positions of good poets in his court, compositions which

were sweet like the sounding of Saraswati's anklets as

she practised graceful walking.
 

 
Slöōkās 12 to 76: The 'song' of the seasons. The amors of

the Prince.
 

 
12. The ladies of the court played on the Viņa with
īṇa with
their slim fingers, singing songs that told his world-

known acts of glory. Sweet notes of gamaka that

wafted from the music made it most attractive.