Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.18

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⁷ Appendix C I, st 41 Just as the fruit of a horse-sacrifice is the conquest of the whole world, the fruit of a man-sacrifice is supposed here to be the conquest of the three worlds Jaitrapâla performed metaphorically such a sacrifice, and that is considered to be the reason, as it were of his having obtained victories everywhere, *i.e.* in the usual hyperbolic language, of his having succeeded in vanquishing the three worlds