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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Grandpa sends the elephants home

This lovely little verse comes from the Monghyr copper plate of Devapāla:

vijitya yenājaladher vasundharāṃ
vimocitā moghaparigrahā iti |
sabāṣpam udbāṣpavilocanān punar
vaneṣu bandhūn dadṛśur mataṅgajāḥ ||

[yena = Gopālena, who was Devapāla's grandfather]

Crying elephants!

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