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 268 THE I3TDIA2T ANTIQUARY. [Septehbeiu ! them, they remembering this benefit sing your praises. Here isVasishtha Riehi's her* mitage, and the country is called one of eighteen hundred villages. In the midst of this Abu is the pure river Man da k in 1; here too is Achalesvara Mahadeva: here the means of attaining trwksha- hare great success. Here is a great place of R i s h a b h a Deva, which is much worshipped by pilgrims. On this Aba it is always cool, so the people 'boss themselves in lions' skins. Here there are mines of various kinds, so that people are wealthy ; famines do not occur, disease is hardly known. On this Abu V^many Eh ills live who are skilful as guides, also cultivators, salute, painters, gamblers too, many of them : there are mines of stones, mines of ' jewels. Here is a forest called S a d v al, such as is not to be met with even in Swarga. Si n- dhnka and other Devis dwell therein. Apsfp rasas also come here to sport. People come hither from foreign countries every year to celebrate Sri Ma 1 1 ' s festival. Here grow good crops of barley and rice, and my income is " lakhs of rupees, out of which I too every year keep Sri Devi's festivals. On the mountain is the excellent river V a r n a s a : you should encamp on the banks of it. Scholars come hither from foreign lands to learn Sanskrit." After this speech the Raja entertained Ku- marapala as a guest with flowers, sandal, &c. The Seventeenth Sarga. Description of night, &c. The Eighteenth Sarga. Afterwards K u m a r a p a 1 a set out from thence : a white umbrella held over him d< his royal rank. "When Ana Raja heard of Ku- marapala'6 arrival he prepared to fight, His min- ister, however, counselled liim against engaging, v saying that he should not have left 'M&nvfir to attack Gujarat ; bat Ana RAja did not approve of his advice, supposing he had been bribed by Knmarapala. Meanwhile the noise of Kumar*. pala's force was heard as it emerged from under the shelter of the mountains. The soldiers of Ana RAja shot arrows at Kumui-apala's army. The king of Nagor took bis bow and arrows. There wore in tlie army leaders of twenties and thirties called Ma hu- ll h a t s. and of thousands called R h a t a It ( The Ixittle raged. The army of Ana, though led by Chatrapa t is, was driven back by the y Gujarat army. Ana then rushed on Kum.irap'da. who said to him, " If you are a brave wu: how is it that you bent the head before J; It proved assuredly that you were knowing. If I conquer you not, it will be to tarnish the fame of Jayasinha." The two sovereigns fought ; the armies, too, closed, the Gujarat's led by A hail 1 ' the minister, and their enemy by the Mantri Govindaraja. At last an iron shaft struck Ana and he fell to the earth. Then his chiefs submitted to Kumarapala. The Nineteenth Sarga, Kumar a pa I a, having struck Ana, remained some days on the field of battle. He was now advised that he should win fame by subduing V a 11:11, as Jayasinha had by conquering Yasovarma. Ana offered a daughter in marriage to- Kamui-ap-da with horses and ele- phants. The king complained that Ana had committed an offence not to be pardoned, in having slain wounded men. However, he ac- cepted his proposals and returned to Pattan. Afterwards the Gor of Ana Raja was sent to Auahillapur with J a I h a n a, who was duly married to Kumfirapala. News was brought to Kumarnpfda that A' i - j a y a and K r i s h n a , the two Samants whom ho had sent to oppose Vail ill when he him- self advanced against Ana, had gone over to the king of Ujjain, and that that monarch was already in his territory advancing on A n a hi I - laput*. Kumarapala, assembling bis troops, went against Valla!, who was defeated and struck from his elephant. The Twentieth Sarga. Then Kumarapala forbade tho sacrifice of life, and thus with his brother Mahipala Deva, and that brother's son Jayadcva, lived happily. The Bnlhmans, too, that saorific in their Yagnae were forbidden to do so, to oiler sacrifices of grain. This order was obey- ed also in Pal ltd os a, so that, tho Sh. who used deer- skins for a covering, found it difficnlfc to procure any. The people of P; chaladesa, too, who had been great de- stroyers of life, being subjects of KumampAIa, were restrained from destroying it. The trade of those who sold flesh was put a stop to. years' income allowed to them in com- pensation. The people of the countries about K isi, however, continued to take life.* . </ • JRd« Mm, vol. I. p. 105.