Part 4: Conquest of Bharata

He, victorious, capable, adorned the earth, second to Samudravijaya, like the moon adorning the sky, second to the sun. One day, the cakra-jewel appeared in his armory, shining with streams of light, like lightning in a cloud. Then all the other jewels, the priest, et cetera, were produced in succession in their proper places. Following the path of the cakra, he set out with the intention of conquering the quarters, and went to the Lord of Māgadha-tīrtha, the ornament of the eastern ocean. The Lord of Māgadhatīrtha came because of an arrow marked with his name, which was like a messenger who had come, and undertook service alone. He conquered Varadāman in the south, and also the god, Ford of Prabhāsa, in the west, as he had the Ford of Māgadha.

Then the cakrin went to the southern bank and conquered Sindhudevī; then, advancing, he arrived at Mt. Vaitāḍhya. The Cakravartin made the Prince of Vaitāḍhya subject to himself, took presents from him, and went to Tamisrā. He conquered duly the god Kṛtamāla, placed like a door-keeper at the entrance to the cave Tamisrā. At his command the general crossed the Sindhu by the skin (-jewel), subdued her western district and returned. When the opening of the double-doors had been made by the general with the staff-jewel, the cakrin on the elephant-jewel entered the cave with his army. The cakrabhṛt, provided with light inside by circles drawn with the cowrie and by a stream of light from the gem-jewel set on the elephant’s right boss, crossed the rivers inside, Unmagnajalā and Nimagnajalā, very difficult to cross, by a path made by the carpenter (-jewel), and with his army left the cave by way of the north entrance whose double-doors opened of their own accord.

Maghavan duly conquered the Kirātas named Āpātas, very hard to conquer, like Maghavan (Indra) conquering the asura-soldiers. The general conquered the western district of the Sindhu,^[1] and he himself went and subdued the Prince of Himācula. He took the cowrie-jewel and wrote his own name, “Maghavan Cakravartin,” on the peak named Ṛṣabha.

Then Maghavan turned back and had the eastern district of the Gaṅgā conquered by the general and he himself subdued the goddess Gañgā. The third cakradhara easily subdued the Vidyādharas in the two rows on Mt. Vaitāḍhya. Knowing the duties of a cakrabhṛt, he made another, Nāṭyamāla, living at the entrance of Khaṇḍaprapātā, subject to himself as usual. The cakrin left Vaitāḍhya by the double-door opened by the general, like a boat leaving the water of the ocean.

The nine treasures, dwelling there at the mouth of the Gaṅgā, Naisarpa, et cetera, submitted to him with pleasure. He had the eastern district of the Gaṅgā conquered by the general. So he conquered six-part Bharata.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

See above and II, n. 303.