There is a city called Benares where Shiva lives. It is loved
by pious people like the soil of Mount Kailasa. The river of
heaven shines there like a pearl necklace. And in the city
lived a king called Valour who burned up all his enemies by
his valour, as a fire burns a forest. He had a son named
Thunderbolt who broke the pride of the love-god by his
beauty, and the pride of men by his bravery.