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"Sage Agastya, seeing that the Pāndya race
has lost its old virility by the wearing influence of time,
has new sent this scimitar to you, oh powerful king."
"You are by nature daring and wedded to risky
enterprises. The possession of this weapon will
make you formidable in battle. Forest fire is terrible
enough, and if high winds also assist it, who can gauge
its all-consuming ferocity?"
"By the wonderful virtue of being armed with this
weapon you will never flag in the field of battle; nor
would any harm result from enemy missiles such as
sword, disc or bow."
"As you wave this lightning-like sword in battle,
not even the God of death can dare oppose you, let
alone, others."
"Do you now proceed to Southern Madhura and
destroy the cruel king of Yavanas who is the enemy
of the world, even as Sri Kṛṣṇa killed the demo-
nic Kamsa who once ruled there (viz., Northern
Madhura)."
"Not for the first time will you now be wear-
ing this bracelet on your hand, which has been (even
on prior occasions) the emblem of your vow of protect-
ing the three worlds, bracelet which none but you can
wear."
"Do you scatter the heads of Turuşṣkas, heads
with those swinging tufts, those blood-shot eyes, those
ferocious beards and furious-browed foreheads."
has lost its old virility by the wearing influence of time,
has new sent this scimitar to you, oh powerful king."
"You are by nature daring and wedded to risky
enterprises. The possession of this weapon will
make you formidable in battle. Forest fire is terrible
enough, and if high winds also assist it, who can gauge
its all-consuming ferocity?"
"By the wonderful virtue of being armed with this
weapon you will never flag in the field of battle; nor
would any harm result from enemy missiles such as
sword, disc or bow."
"As you wave this lightning-like sword in battle,
not even the God of death can dare oppose you, let
alone, others."
"Do you now proceed to Southern Madhura and
destroy the cruel king of Yavanas who is the enemy
of the world, even as Sri Kṛṣṇa killed the demo-
nic Kamsa who once ruled there (viz., Northern
Madhura)."
"Not for the first time will you now be wear-
ing this bracelet on your hand, which has been (even
on prior occasions) the emblem of your vow of protect-
ing the three worlds, bracelet which none but you can
wear."
"Do you scatter the heads of Turu
with those swinging tufts, those blood-shot eyes, those
ferocious beards and furious-browed foreheads."