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and with its mind devoted to thee attains the beauty
of a garland of blue lotuses, each of which is encircled
with a row of bees delirious with delight.
16
Whoever has his hair dishevelled at the hands of
royal military officers frightened of their master's
frown, or is bound in the hard fetters of unbearable
slanders noised abroad by babbling servants rushing
up and down, his throat and lips being parched with
hunger and thirst, forthwith doth he rid himself of
that dire calamity by taking refuge at the noble feet
of Tara, what though he be forsaken by his dearest
friends!
17
Terrible with the excessive splendour of thy res-
plendent weapons which are of power to quell the
pride of the manifold false decorations effected by a
series of works brought into existence through power
of magic, the demons wearing garlands made of
masses of entrails from dug-up corpses, confer on him
whose sins have been removed by the recollection of
the charms derived from thy Tantras, a protection
which no foe can take away.
18
In the field of battle darkened by streams of ichor
flowing in rivers from the cheeks and forehead of
elephants whose forms are like those of rumbling
clouds-the field which is brightened by the splen-
dour of weapons which flash like lightning-the field
where showers of arrows are constantly raining, the
single-handed warrior hemmed in on all sides by the
and with its mind devoted to thee attains the beauty
of a garland of blue lotuses, each of which is encircled
with a row of bees delirious with delight.
16
Whoever has his hair dishevelled at the hands of
royal military officers frightened of their master's
frown, or is bound in the hard fetters of unbearable
slanders noised abroad by babbling servants rushing
up and down, his throat and lips being parched with
hunger and thirst, forthwith doth he rid himself of
that dire calamity by taking refuge at the noble feet
of Tara, what though he be forsaken by his dearest
friends!
17
Terrible with the excessive splendour of thy res-
plendent weapons which are of power to quell the
pride of the manifold false decorations effected by a
series of works brought into existence through power
of magic, the demons wearing garlands made of
masses of entrails from dug-up corpses, confer on him
whose sins have been removed by the recollection of
the charms derived from thy Tantras, a protection
which no foe can take away.
18
In the field of battle darkened by streams of ichor
flowing in rivers from the cheeks and forehead of
elephants whose forms are like those of rumbling
clouds-the field which is brightened by the splen-
dour of weapons which flash like lightning-the field
where showers of arrows are constantly raining, the
single-handed warrior hemmed in on all sides by the