Note 41 — APPENDIX.

(112) Like hell, he was the refuge of the lords of earth,41 fearing when their soaring pride was shorn;42 like the stars, he was followed by the wise men;43 like Love, he destroyed strife;44 like Daçaratha, he had good friends;45 (113) like Çiva, he was followed by a mighty host;46 like Çesha, he had the weight of the earth upon him;47 like the stream of Narmadā, his descent was from a noble tree.48 He was the incarnation of Justice, the very representative of Vishṇu, the destroyer of all the sorrows of his people. He re-established justice, which had been shaken to its foundations by the Kali Age, set on iniquity, and mantled in gloom by the spread of darkness, just as Çiva re-established Kailāsa when carried off by Rāvaṇa. He was honoured by the world as a second Kāma, created by Çiva when his heart was softened by the lamentations of Rati.