Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

SR No.: 001004
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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RÅVAŅA'S EXPEDITION OF CONQUEST
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water had inundated both banks quickly, it submerged your pūjá to the gods here, Daśānana. Look at these remains of the garlands of his wives, actually floating on the bank of the Revă. That is the first indication. This water, very turbid from the women's cosmetics made of musk, et cetera, is hard to restrain, O restrainer of heroes." : At hearing this Daśānana was inflamed very much, like a fire that has received an oblation, and said:
"Listen! This pūjā to the gods was spoiled by that water spoiled by his own body by him wishing to die, like devadüsya spoiled by collyrium. Therefore, go, soldiers of the Rákşasas! Bind that wretch who thinks himself a soldier and bring him here, sirs, like fishermen a fish."
Instructed emphatically to this effect, his followers, the Räkşasa-soldiers, ran by the lacs, like extraordinary waves of the Revā. The Rākşasas engaged in battle with Sahasrāiśu's soldiers standing on the banks, like elephants with elephants inside a forest. Standing in the air, bewildering very many of them by vidyās, they attacked them like clouds attacking śarabhas with hail.118 Seeing his men being attacked, his lip trembling with anger, Sahasranśu reassured his wives by waving his hand like a pennant. Sahasrānsu left the Revā, like Airāvaņa leaving the heavenly Sindhu, and strung his bow. Sahasrānsu, long-armed, put the Raksas-heroes in the air to flight with arrows, like a wind bunches of straw. When he saw that his men had been turned from the battle, Rāvaņa himself, angered, approached Sahasrānsu, raining arrows. Both angry, both very strong, both determined, they fought for a long time with various weapons. Realizing that he could not be defeated by strength of arm, Rāvana seized the king of Māhismati, after bewildering him like an elephant with a vidyā. Praising him as very heroic, Daśagriva himself conducted him to the camp, very humble, considering himself conquered even though he had conquered.
118 331. See I, n. 302.