[33] The list looks long, but the pages in the ‘Nirṇaya-Sāgara’ edition contain frequently but few lines, and many of the omissions are a line or two of oft-repeated similes.
[34] Beginning at p. 566 of the ‘Nirṇaya-Sāgara’ edition.
[35] I here take the opportunity to acknowledge what by an oversight was omitted in its proper place, my indebtedness to Professor Cowell for the rendering into English verse of two couplets given on pp. 11 and 113.
KĀDAMBARĪ.
(1) Hail to the Birthless, the cause of creation, continuance, and destruction, triple[1] in form and quality, who shows activity in the birth of things, goodness in their continuance, and darkness in their destruction.
(2) Glory to the dust of Tryambaka’s feet, caressed by the diadem of the demon Bāṇa[2]; even that dust that kisses the circle of Rāvaṇa’s ten crest-gems, that rests on the crests of the lords of gods and demons, and that destroys our transitory life.
(3) Glory to Vishṇu, who, resolving to strike from afar, with but a moment’s glance from his wrath-inflamed eye stained the breast of his enemy, as if it had burst of itself in terror.
I salute the lotus feet of Bhatsu,[3] honoured by crowned Maukharis: the feet which have their tawny toes rubbed on a footstool made by the united crowns of neighbouring kings.
Who is there that fears not the wicked, pitiless in causeless enmity; in whose mouth calumny hard to bear is always ready as the poison of a serpent?
The wicked, like fetters, echo harshly, wound deeply, and leave a scar; while the good, like jewelled anklets, ever charm the mind with sweet sounds.