Note 20 — VII CANDRA, HARṢA, AND MAHENDRAVIKRAMAVARMAN
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‘Heads were cleft by the blows of swords on helmets sore smitten; blood flowed in torrents, fire flashed from the ringing strokes; when his main host had been broken, Rumaṇvant challenged in the forefront of the battle the lord of Kosala, who rode on a maddened elephant, and alone slew him with a hundred arrows.’ The matching of the sound to the sense is admirable, while a delicate perception is evinced in the line describing the king’s success in soothing the wounded queen:20