The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 2 (Mitra translation)

YOGA VASISHTHA.

9. The chiefs assembled with ardour with their troops of horses, elephants, and war-chariots, and announced the installation of Sindhu by his minister.

10. Chief engineers were employed in making the decorations of the city and its halls, and the balconies were filled by the royal party attending at the inauguration.

11. It was then that the coronation of Sindhu’s son took place amidst the loud acclamations of victory, and titles and dignities were conferred upon the noblemen on the victor’s side.

12. The royal party were flying for life into the villages, where they were pursued by the victorious soldiers; and a general pillage spread in every town and village throughout the realm.

13. Gangs of robbers thronged about and blocked the passages for pillage and plunder, and a thick mist darkened the light of the day for want of the magnanimous Vidúratha.

14. The loud lamentations of the friends of the dead, and the bitter cries of the dying, mixed with the clamour raised by the driving cars, elephants, and horses, thickened in the air as a solid body of sound (pindagráhya that which can be grasped as a single mass).

15. Loud trumpets proclaimed the victory of Sindhu in every city and announced his sole sovereignty all over the earth.

16. The high-shouldered Sindhu entered the capital as a second Manu the progenitor of humanity/Noah, for re-peopling it after the all-devastating flood of war was over.

17. Then the tribute of the country poured into the city of Sindhu from all sides; and these loaded on horses and elephants resembled the rich cargoes borne by ships to the sea.

18. The new king issued forthwith his circulars and royal edicts to all sides, struck coins in his own name, and placed his ministers as commissioners in all provinces.

19. His iron-rod was felt in all districts and cities like the inexorable rod of Yama the god of death, and it overawed the living with fear of instant death.

20. All insurrections and tumults in the realm soon sub-