Then Suryaprabha and his ministers rose up early in the morning, and accompanied by all the troops of the Danavas and their allies, went to the field of battle. And S'rutasarman came surrounded by all the forces of the Vidyadharas; and all the gods, A suras, and others again came to look on. Both armies adopted the crescent formation, then there took place a battle between those two armies. The swift arrows,* winged with feathers, clashing against one another and cutting one another in pieces, also fought. The long sword-blades issued from the mouths of the scabbards, and drinking blood, and waving to and fro, appeared like the tongues of Death. The field of battle seemed like a lake, the full-blown lotuses of which were the faces of heroes j on these the shower of discuses descended like a flight of Brahmany ducks, and so ruined the kingly swans. The combat appeared, with the severed heads of heroes flying up and down, like a game of ball, with which Death was amusing himself. When the arena of combat was cleared from the obscuring dust by the sprinkling of bloody drops, there took place on it the single combats of furious champions. There Siiryaprabha fought with S'rutasarman, and Prabhasa fought with Damodara, and Siddhartha fought with Mahotpata, and Prahasta with Brahmagupta, and Vitabhi with Sangama, and Prajnadhya with Chandragupta, and Priyankara with Akrama, and Sarvadamana fought with Atibala, and Kunjarakumaraka fought with Dhurandhara, and other great champions fought with others respectively.

Then first Mahotpata silenced the arrows of Siddhartha with his arrows, an'd after cleaving his bow, slew his horses and charioteer. Siddhartha, though deprived of his chariot, charged him angrily, and with a large iron mace broke in pieces his chariot and horses. Then Siddhartha fought on foot with Mahotpata also on foot, and in a wrestling-bout hurled him to the ground. But while he was trying to crush him, fchat Vidyadhara was delivered by his father Bhaga, and flying up into the air left the battle- field. And Prahasta and Brahmagupta destroyed one another's chariots, and then fought witli swords, shewing various arts of fence ; and Prahu>iu cleft his foe's shield in the course of their sword-play, and with a dexterous sleight laid him low on the earth ; but when he was about to cut off his head, as he lay on the ground, he was forbidden by his father Brahma

• S'avard should probably be farakd.