हम्मीर महाकाव्यम् (रणथम्भौर चौहान वीरगाथा एवं इतिहास)

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field in the disguise of his sword red with the blood of the necks
of his enemies that he had severed. In the field of battle, while
the martial bands were playing, and the gods in the heavens
viewing the performance, the king caused the goddess of victory
to dance in the guise of his quivering sword. Does not the
sun, surpassed by this prince in brilliancy, drown himself in the
deep, and—alas! for the pain of dying—come every day above the
waters in his struggles?"
III Naradeva.—' Vâsudeva begat Naradeva, fit to
be praised by Brahmâ himself, the delight of the eyes of women—
his body surpassing in beauty that of Cupid himself. When the
king went out into the world, the other chiefs, to protect their
possessions, did not take the sword out of its sheath, but only took
wealth from their coffers. In the battlefield his arms, bearing the
brilliant white sword, bore the beauties of the Eastern Mountain,
destroying the freshness of the lotuses of the faces of his enemies.
It is but natural that the fire of the king's valour should have
burnt down the forests of iniquity, but it is strange that the same
fire should have filled his enemies with cold shakings. Methinks
the sun, with his progeny, in token of submission, had fixed his
abode in the toe nails of this prince."
IV "Chandrarâja by his fame and the beauty of his
countenance, achieving a double conquest over the moon, vindi-
cated the appropriate significance of his name, which means
'Lord of the moon.' Strange was the power of the fire of his
valour, for it burnt bright in the enemy in whom the stream of
bravery flowed, while it was extinguished in that enemy who was
destitute of this stream,' &c.
The above paragraphs may suffice to show the style of fulsome
eulogy used by the poet in disposing of those princes of whom he
had no historical information to give. The same similes occur
again and again, and often the language is stiff and artificial.
I subjoin a list of the Chohân princes up to Hammîra as