My best the southern nations fear,

The Angas and the Vangas hear.

And as lord paramount I reign

O'er Magadh and the Matsyas' plain,

Kośal, and Káśi's wide domain:[273]

All rich in treasures of the mine,

In golden corn, sheep, goats, and kine.

Choose what thou wilt. Kaikeyí, thence:

But tell me, O my darling, whence

Arose thy grief, and it shall fly