Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 172

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"Born" and so forth. O Goddess, "this was born of bowing before your lotus feet," produced from bowing down to your lotus feet. "The dawn of grace"—your grace, your inclination toward favor, its very dawn, its arising. It is only the fruit of serving you—this is the understood conclusion of the elders. If asked, "Who is this?", he says: "Born..." and so forth. The king named Vatsarāja, "even though born in an ordinary lineage of kings," not among anointed Kṣatriyas but among feudatory chieftains; there too, not possessing abundant wealth, grain, cattle, assemblies, lands, and the like, but born into a family with meager possessions; "elevated in majesty"—majesty is the capacity to inspire fear in enemies from afar, elevated by that, having attained elevation, superiority; "the status of universal monarch of the entire earth"—the status of the sovereign king, ruler of the whole earth bounded by the four oceans; "having attained," having reached without difficulty; "whose feet were praised by multitudes of vidyādharas"—vidyās, sciences, namely: