Victory to the conqueror of obstacles,* who marks with a line like the pnrting of the hair, the principal mountains! by the mighty fanning of his ear-flaps, pointing out, as it were, a path of success !

Then Udayana, the king of Vatsa, remaining in Kausambi, enjoyed the conquered earth which was under one umbrella ; and the happy monarch devolved the care of his empire upon Yaugandharayana and Kumanvat, and addicted himself to pleasure only in the society of Vasantaka. Himself playing on the lute, in the company of the queen Vasavadatta and Padma- vati, he was engaged in a perpetual concert. While the notes of his lyre were married to the soft sweet song of the queens, the rapid movement of his executing finger alone indicated the difference of the sounds. And while the roof of the palace was white with moonlight as with his own glory, he drank wine in plenteous streams as he had swallowed the pride of his enemiesj ; beautiful women brought him, as he sat retired, in vessels of gold, wine flaming with rosy glov, as it were the water of his appoint- ment as ruler in the empire of love ; he divided between the two queens the cordial liquor red, delicious, and pellucid, in which danced the reflection of their faces ; as he did his own heart, impassioned, enraptured and trans- parent, in which the same image was found ; his eyes were never sated with resting on the faces of those queens, which had the eyebrows arched, and blushed with the rosy hue of love, though envy and anger were far from them ; the scene of his banquet, tilled with many crystal goblets of win.-,

• i. e. the god Gancsa, who has an elephant's head.

t Seven principal mountains arc supposed to exist in eneh Yarsha or division of a continent. | There is a reference here to the nintia or ichor which exud- - h"iu ;i temples when in rut. raija also means passion.