in the four principal attributes and who was purer than thy son, fell a prey to death, do not grieve for thy son that is dead.  We hear, O Srinjaya, that king Bhagiratha also died.  In one of the sacrifices of that king, intoxicated with the Soma he had drunk, Indra, the adorable chastiser of Paka and the chief of the gods, vanquished, by putting forth the might of his arms, many thousands of Asuras.  King Bhagiratha, in one of the sacrifices he performed, gave away a million of maidens adorned with ornaments of gold.  Each of those maidens sat upon a car and unto each car were attached four steeds.  With each car were a hundred elephants, all of the foremost breed and decked with chains of gold.  Behind each elephant were a thousand steeds, and behind each steed a thousand kine, and behind each cow a thousand goats and sheep. (The river-goddess) Ganga, named (from before) Bhagirathi, sat upon the lap of this king dwelling near (her stream), and from this incident she came to be called Urvasi.[93] The triple-coursed Ganga had agreed to be the daughter of Bhagiratha of Ikshvaku’s race, that monarch ever engaged in the performance of sacrifices with presents in profusion unto the Brahmanas.[94] When he, O Srinjaya, who transcended thee in respect of the four principal attributes and who was purer than thy son, fell a prey to death, do not grieve for thy son.  We hear, O Srinjaya, that the high-souled Dilipa also fell a prey to death.  The Brahmanas love to recite his innumerable deeds.  In one of his great sacrifices that king, with heart fully assenting, gave away the entire earth, abounding with wealth, unto the Brahmanas.  In each sacrifice performed by him, the chief priest received as sacrificial fee a thousand elephants made of gold.  In one of his sacrifices, the stake (set up for slaughtering the victims) was made of gold and looked exceedingly beautiful.  Discharging the duties assigned to them, the gods having Sakra for their chief, used to seek the protection of that king.  Upon that golden stake possessed of great effulgence and decked with a ring, six thousand Gods and Gandharvas danced in joy, and Viswavasu himself, in their midst played on his Vina the seven notes according to the rules that regulate their combinations.  Such was the character of Viswavasu’s music that every creature (whatever he might be) thought that the great Gandharva was playing to him alone.  No other monarch could imitate this achievement of king Dilipa.  The elephants of that king, intoxicated and adorned with housings of gold, used to lie down on the roads.[95] Those men proceeded to heaven that succeeded in obtaining a sight even of the high-souled king Dilipa who was ever truthful in speech and whose bow could bear a hundred foes equal in energy to a hundred Anantas.[96] These three sounds never ceased in Dilipa’s abode, viz., the voice of Vedic recitations, the twang of bows, and cries of Let it be given.  When he, O Srinjaya, who transcended thee in the four principal attributes and who was