The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.222.1

v2.c30.s4.222.1

As many as twenty verses are devoted in his brother's Nagpur *praśasti* to describing the various military campaigns of Lakṣmadeva.² We are told that, "desirous of capturing matchless elephants, he proceeded to Hari's quarter (*i.e.*, the East)," and then, "just as dread entered the town of the lord of Gauḍa" (V. 38). 'In the course of (another?) unchecked expedition......he had attacked Tripurī, and annihilated his warlike spirited adversaries'; he (then) "encamped on the banks of the Revā, where his tents were shaded by the creeping-plants of pleasure-gardens, gently set in motion by the breeze from the torrents of the Vindhya mountains. The bathing of his elephants, which allayed the fatigue of battle, produced in the stream of the Revā a succession of waves, bent upon undermining the steep river banks. Often and often the elephants of his army, thickly covered with. streams of rutting-juice, demolished even the hills at the foot of the Vindhya mountains." (Vs. 39-41)..." He traversed the hills at the foot of the Vindhya mountains, which were frequently trodden by the squadrons of his fleet horses, the quick sharp hoofs of which acted like chisels in cutting up the extensive, bamboo-clad, massive table-land." (V. 42)......