Verse 6
The soldiers reach the city· Verses 1–6
।
।
।
।
।
।
1Barhismat, those soldiers of the one whose name is Fear, who carry out what is appointed, went over this earth together with Prajvara and the daughter of Time. 2Once, king, they laid violent siege to Puranjana's city, rich in the good things of earth and guarded by an aging serpent. 3The daughter of Time too fed by force on Puranjana's city. A man once overcome by her goes at once to having nothing left in him. 4While she was feeding on it, the yavanas came in by the gates from every direction and harried the whole city hard. 5As the city was crushed, Puranjana, who took it for his own, a householder wild with his sense of mine, came in for torments of many kinds.
6Held in the girl's arms, his splendour gone, wretched, his self given over to the things of sense, his wits gone, his mastery seized by the gandharvas and the yavanas,