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JANUTSIDURATED BRANNERSUITALERY
 
MADHURAVIJAYAM
 
13. With one blow of his sword he (king) split
in two both the elephants and their riders with their

in two both the elephants and their riders with their
coat of mail. Their bodies, lying mingled, gave but a
slender clue for distinguishing the ranks of elephants

slender clue for distinguishing the ranks of elephants
from those of foot-soldiers.
 
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14. The king, by smiting the elephants on their

globes, produced many a river of blood scattering the
pearls on their head like sands.
 

pearls on their head like sands.
 
15. One thought, by looking at them, that there

was not only one Tāmraparṇi river but several hun-

dreds of Tamraparnis.
 
āmraparṇis.
 
16. The heads of other elephants he pierced with

his javelins and pearls came out from them. This

reminded one of Subrahmaṇya boring a hole in the

krownça mountain through which hosts of swans
 
came out.
 

came out.
 
17. The agile king cut and wounded the bodies

of those that opposed him, even as a hyena destroys,

with his sharp nails, deer caught in front of him.
 

 
18. The brave king pounded the turbaned heads

of his enemies with his mace in such a way that the

eyes which came out of the sockets sank again in their
old places.
 

old places.
 
19. When the king, thus began to work destruc-

tion in the enemy ranks with his several weapons, the

opposing army fled before him and disappeared like
rains in the huge fires that are started at the end of

rains in the huge fires that are started at the end of
universe (Pralaya).