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From the victorious camp, established at Subheśvara pāṭaka, though inhabited by the four colours (Varnas, colours, castes), shines with only one white colour on account of possessing palaces, sky-licking and emulating permanent masses of famemonkeys, exceedingly fidgety, emulating showers of merits— whitewashed city-walls with the surrounding moats, shining like the remnant of the ocean.

When the Mahārājās, such as Unmaṭṭā, Gayāḍa, Keśvari and others who were so high as to live in Nandana—who delighted the gods-who were like wishing trees with mighty fruits, bent upon supplying whatever a suitor wanted-who were, like lions fierce with claws, and adepts in piercing elephants, belonging to invincible enemies-who were devoted to the work of regenerating those who had lost their prestige-who were like flamingoes in being partial to pure merits or flying on white wings, but unlike them, being free from any mental addictions or not being anxious for the lake of Manasa-who were like lotus tanks, in being rich in their armies or in being full of splendid lotus stalks, but unlike them, not being fond of oppressive taxation or fond of the fierce rays of the sun-who having brought, under control, the empires of others and his own, exhaust ed their entire treasures in furtherance of religion-who have adorned the face of the earth with various monasteries, viharas and palaces, as if with a desire to build a staircase for ascending the city of Indra-and who were as powerful as Indra-had passed off and when the Kara family were known only to fame-Tribhuvana Mahadevi, Mahārājādhirāja Paramesvarī, Parama Bhaṭṭārikā, meditating on the feet of her parents, a devoted worshipper of Visnu, the daughter of the prosperous Raja Mulla Deva, the frontal mark of the southern quarter, who finding the earth with all her Kara kings dead

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