A History of Assam c26.s1.26

c26.s1.26

(Second Plate: reverse:) and which (river) also resembles the cloth of the finely wrought flags carried by the elephants of Kailāsa, and the jewelled mirrors used in their coquetries by the numerous females (i.e., the Apsarases) of the lord of heaven (i.e., Indra). It is an object of respect to merchants who are the owners of numerous (kinds of) wares. Such is the town in which the lord of Prāgjyōtisa took up his residence and which he called by the appropriate name of the "Impregnable one" (durjaya). Here dulness might be observed in necklaces, but not in the senses (of the inhabitants); fickleness in apes, but not in their minds; changefulness in the motions of the eyebrows, but not in promises; accidents (happening) to things, but not to the subjects. Here capriciousness might be seen (only) in women; reeling (only) in the gait of women excited with the (tender) intoxication of springtide; covetousness (only) in evil-doers; safe addiction to the sipping of honey (only) in swarms of bees; exceeding devotion to love (only) in Brahmany ducks (Anas Casarca); and eating of flesh (only) in wild beasts. In that town, which emulated the residence of Vāsava (i.e., Indra) the king, who resembles the moon in that he makes his virtues to wax, as the moon makes the tides of the encircling ocean to wax, and in that he causes his enemies to experience the deprivation of their wealth, as the moon causes the ponds to experience the deprivation of their lotuses; and who resembles the sun in that he makes his feet to rest on the heads of his enemies, as the sun makes his rays to rest on the summits of the mountains, and in that he delights in making his copper-mines lucrative, as the sun makes the lotus-ponds brilliant; who, being a Parameçvara (or paramount sovereign), takes pleasure in (the country of) Kāmarupa; who, though being of the Bhauma (i.e., of Naraka’s) race, delights in being the enemy of the Dānavas (or demons); who being a Purusōttama or “perfect man,” does not act as a Janārdana (or troubler of his subjects); who, though being a valiant man, walks (leisurely) like an elephant: whose figure is such as to out-do Manmatha (or the god of love); whose profundity such as to put into the shade the ocean; whose intelligence such as to be a guarantee of the conquest of the world; whose valour such as to surpass Skanda (or the god of war): who is an Arjuna in fame, a Bhīmasena in war, a Kritānta (or god of death) in wrath, a forest-conflagration in destroying his plant-like adversaries: who is the moon in the sky of learning, the (sweet) breeze of the Malaya mountains in the midst of the jasmin-like men of good birth, the sun in eclipsing his enemies, the mountain of the East in the successful advancement of his friends: this king, the Parameçvara, Parama-bhattāraka, Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Ratnapāla Varma-deva who mediates at the feet of the Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Brahmapāla Varma-deva, may he prosper.