The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's ...

62 THE OCEAN OF STORY
When the battle began, brave warriors fell like trees marked
out for the axe, and torrents of blood flowed on the mountain
Govindakuta. The combat, eager to devour the lives of
heroes, yawned like a demon of destruction, with tongues in
the form of flexible swords greedily licking up blood. 1
That
great feast of slaughter, terrible with the rhythmic clapping
of hands on the part of Vetalas drunk with blood and flesh,
and covered with palpitating corpses for dancers, gave great
delight to the demons.
Then Manasavega met Naravahanadatta face to face in
the conflict, and the prince himself rushed on him in wrath.
And having rushed on him, that emperor seized the villain
by the hair, and at once cut off his head with his sword.
When Gaurimunda saw that, he too sprang forward in a fury,
and Naravahanadatta dragged him along by the hair, for the
power of his science left him as soon as he saw the prince,
and flung him on the ground, and seizing his legs whirled
him round in the air, and dashed him to pieces on a rock. In
and the rest
this way he slew Gaurimunda and Manasavega ;
of their army, being terrified, 2 took to flight. And a rain of
flowers fell into the lap of that emperor, and all the gods
in heaven exclaimed :
" Bravo ! Bravo !
" Then Narava-
hanadatta, with all those kings that followed him, entered
the palace of Gaurimunda ; and immediately the chiefs of the
Vidyadharas who were connected with Gaurimunda's party
came and submitted humbly to his sway.
Then Dhanavati came up to that sovereign in the midst
of the rejoicings on account of his having taken possession of
his kingdom after slaying all his enemies, and said to him :
" My liege, Gaurimunda has left a daughter named Ihatmatika,
the belle of the three worlds ; you should marry that
maiden." When she said this to the king, he immediately
sent for the girl, and married her, and passed the day very
happily in her society.
The next morning he sent Vegavati and Prabhavati, and
1 More literally, " smeared with blood and relishing it." Bohtlingk and
Roth seem to think rasat refers to some noise made by the swords.
text.
2 All the India Office MSS. read bhltam for the bhimam of Brockhaus'