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soldiers succeeded in scaling the hill with ladders and attacked the garrison inside the fort. Unable to bear any longer the charge of the Karrata army, Champaraja sallied forth to offer personal resistance to the assailants. However much the gene- rals desired to fight with him in single combat, Kampána would not permit them to do so, reserving such an honour for himself. Champa and Kampana met each other in single combat, swords in band, and Champa was killed. Then prince Kampana proceeded victoriously to Kanchi, settled down there and began to rule the Tundira-mandala with due observance of the dharmas appropriate to the varnas. Making the large city of Marakata the seat of government of the newly acquird province, Kampana, to please the people of the country, first reduced all taxes and ruled sagaciously so as to be loved by all. The kings of the Magadha, Malava, Sevuna, Simhala, Dramila, Kerala and Gaula countries waited at his gate to have an audience in his court. At home in his palace, prince Kampans sometimes spent his time in the enlightened company of poets and scholars, and sometimes with the ladies of the zenana, enjoying the pleasures appropri- ate to the six ritus and the recreations proper to the various seasons, such as jalakrida and gathering flowers in gardens. It is in this context that we learn that Gangadevi, the authoress, was the Queen of Kampana, for at the request of her royal consort, she revels in some beautiful descriptions of the rising moon etc. [It is however unfortunate that in this parti- cular part of the poem we find a large number of lacunae, which can be filled up only when more copies of the work are available; and for this it is imperative that active search should be made by all true lovers of the history of India for a better manuscript. In spite of the gaps, we are still able to pursue the thread of the narrative.] One day, a strange woman appeared before king Kampana and complained in the following strain about the occupation of the south by Tarushkas, and. its evil effects. "O King! The place known as Vyaghrapuri (Chidambaram, Perumparra. puliyur) has become truly so, for tigers inhabit it now where