The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c15.74

v1.c15.74

Crowded with a dense forest, as it were, of arms of his brave soldiers, who were hankering after the plunder of the camps of all his enemies, yet was fit to be inhabited by wealthy people (merchants)......the disk of the sun was hidden (from view) by the thousand of its plastered turrets, .....adorned by learned men, religious preceptors and poets, it resembled the *parameśvara-ādhiṣṭhānam* (Kailāsa)......its boundaries were encompassed by a rampart furnished with a fence strong like that used for the game-birds of the Sakas, fit to cause chagrin to the *king of Gurjara*, to give fever to the heads of the untameable elephants of the *chief of Gauḍa*, to act like bitumen in the earth to the *lord of Kerala*, to strike awe into the *Bāhikas and Tāikas*, to cause pulmonary consumption to the *master of the Deccan country*.........It is rendered beautiful by the Lauhitya. Such is the town in which the *lord of Prāgjyotiṣa* took up his residence, and which he called by the appropriate name of the *Impregnable one* (*Prāgjyotiśeṣa-Durjayākhyapuram adhyuvāsa*).¹