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The king of Vatsa for his part, when the king of Benares came to him, bringing a present, received him with respect and kindness, for heroes love submission. He being thus subdued, that mighty king went on pacifying the East, making the yielding bend, but extirpating the obstinate, as the wind treats the trees, until he reached the Eastern ocean, rolling: with quivering waves, as it were, trembling with terror on account of the Ganges having been conquered. On its extreme shore he set up a pillar of victory,*[1] looking like the king of the serpents emerging from the world below to crave immunity for Pátála. Then the people of Kalinga †[2] submitted and paid tribute, and acted as the king's guides, so that the renown of that renowned one ascended the mountain of Mahendra. Having conquered a forest of kings by means of his elephants, which seemed like the peaks of the Vindhya come to him terrified at the conquest of Mahendra, he went to the southern quarter. There he made his enemies cease their threatening murmurs and take to the mountains, strengthless ‡[3] and pale, treating them as the season of autumn, treats the clouds. The Kaveri being crossed by him in his victorious onset, and the glory of the king of the Chola §[4] race being surpassed, were befouled at the same time. He no longer allowed the Muralas¶[5] to exalt their heads, for they were completely beaten down by tributes imposed on them. Though his elephants drank the waters of the Godávarí divided into seven streams, they seemed to discharge them again seven-fold in the form of ichor. Then the king crossed the Eeva and reached Ujjayiní, and entered the city, being made by king Chandamahasena to precede him. And there he became the target of the amorous sidelong glances of the ladies of Málava, who shine with twofold beauty by loosening their braided hair and wearing garlands, and he remained there in great comfort, hospitably entertained by his father-in-law, so
- ↑ * Jayastambha. "Wilson remarks that the erection of these columns is often alluded to by Hindu writers, and explains the character of the solitary columns which are sometimes met with, as the Lát at Delhi, the pillars at Allahábád, Buddal, &c.
- ↑ † Kalinga is usually described as extending from Orissa to Drávida or below Madras, the coast of the Northern Circars. It appears, however, to be sometimes the Delta of the Ganges. It was known to the ancients as Regio Calingarum, and is familiar to the natives of the Eastern Archipelago by the name of Kling. Wilson.
- ↑ ‡ The clouds are nihsára void of substance, as being no longer heavy with rain. The thunder ceases in the autumn.
- ↑ § Chola was the sovereignty of the western part of the Peninsula on the Carnatic, extending southwards to Tanjore where it was bounded by the Pándyan kingdom. It appears to have been the regio Soretanum of Ptolemy and the Chola mandala or district furnishes the modern appellation of the Coromandel Coast.— Wilson, Essays, p. 241 note.
- ↑ ¶ Murala is another name fur Kerala now Malabar (Hall.) Wilson identities it with the Curula of Ptolemy.
