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TſIE PRITIIIRAJA RASAU.

SEPt. 6, 1872.]

have come to meet you and to seek your pro

The bania's daughter continued her penances

tection.

what property you will.”

standing in the heat between fires, in the cold

Pawasur hearing this, went to the Rāja, he sent for Kirpal. The Chāluk’s ministers came to meet him “Whatever property you may demand we will place it at your feet.” The king replied “Listen, I will place a thana here; in a month, I will build a city. Pawasur the Tuar said, “bring the tribute.” They sent for property; he founded a city there. The Chahuvân king gained the field, the Chāluk was wounded. Bisal returned home again, having founded Bisalnagar.” In Samvat 936,t Bisal the king founded a royal city, handsome to behold. Bisal Rāja entered his city Ajmer. A Bania

water in winter, saying, “My sin has been very great, if I perform unheard of penance then I may get pardon.” The king determined not to return to Ajmer, but to repair to

Call for

dwelt there : at his house the Rāja prepared to

marry beholding the maid to be like an Apsaras. The bards exclaimed “Jay ! Jay !” the sons

Gokarna, the shrine of Hara.

Bisal Sarovar.

He halted at the

[On Sunday the seventh of

the month, as he was about to proceed with chariots, horses, and elephants]f the king saw a snake in his tent and shot at it with an arrow.

It escaped and hid in his boot (mojarſ).

When

he was putting on his boots to mount his horse the

snake bit him [the Rāja laughed and said “that which is fated will happen.” They tried medi cines and spells in vain; the Raja's pain in

creased.

Hearing the Rāja was dead the Par

mári became a Sati :—dying she said— “The

of the Māgadhas ; grain and wealth the king

son of the Jadavani will rule the country, may

rained on the earth as Indra pours rain. In this way at Ajmer the king performed as it were a yajna at the b a ni a's house. The bride was not yet thirteen: the whole city ridi

my blessing be on him”].

culed it.

ate.

In Asārh month in the light half, on

the second day, Monday, much rain came from the north, the sun was not seen for five days, at this time the Rāja enjoyed his bride. § One night she said, “O Rāja I have a boon to beg. At Pushkar is a woman of great beauty, you should go to see her.” On the second day after the Dasera the king went there and beheld a bania’s daughter named Gauri performing auste rities. Bisal Rāja seeing her became excited by lust, when the day came to an end he committed what should not have been committed. Every one who heard it was sorrowful. They declared

that the king was never to be satisfied.| The girl forced in the midst of her penances, to the Deva pronounced a curse. “Become an Asura, King Bisal, an eater of the flesh of men.” The king hearing this trembled, and touching

In that same place"

Bisal became an Asura, always hungry, vomiting flames of fire, eating men where there was a town or an army; as many as he could obtain he

(Anā’s mother says) “When your father heard this story he sent me to Rinthambh, I being then pregnant. He prepared himself to fight the

Rakshasa. [His fate and mine were one, or rather, our ill fortune was alike, to stop disgrace we endured trouble. This was his desire and mine.] With a thousand men sounding the kettledrum, the Chahuvân set forth : he reached Ajmer. He found all the gardens waste and the fort broken down: Sărang Deva saw this. He

[thought of the bania (his foster father) andj reflected that it was a female ascetic of his race that had destroyed his family. He lamented [his eyes filled with tears as he thought on his father]. Three days he remained in the fort, but

he saw not the Asura. Then Sărang Deva began to take heart and think of again building the city.

her feet, asked how his restoration would be

In the morning of the 11th the Dānava entered

effected.

the city. The whole army snatching their weapons ran to fight him. They fought with

She said his son's son who would be

an ornament of the earth and a great warrior would effect his liberation."[

O ! son (says the relater to her son Aná) by the strength of her penances he became an Asura. stipulation of this treaty was, that the Chālukya should give a daughter in marriage to Bisal Deva.
 * Colonel Tod, Western India, p. 172, mentions that one

He also men

tiºns, quoting the Hamir Rasa, a work relating the exploits of a Chauhan prince of that name, that Bisal Deva took Prince Karan, son of Rāja Bhim, prisoner.—Ras Mālā, vol. I.

creepers, father and son were fighting. Sārang Deva f Much condensed.

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§ Twelve lines left out and the rest condensed.
 * About 100 lines are here compressed.
 * About 40 lines are compressed into this passage.

evil life and remorse.
 * About 40 lines here omitted expressive of the king's

p.98, note.


 * This battle was

swords, he seized them in his mouth and broke them as a monkey breaks fruit from trees and

probably fought about A.D. 1046, or

Samvat Sake 968–Ed.

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+ In what follows the longer additions made by Mr. Beames have been put within brackets.-E.D.