Setubandha

SR No.: 001384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 812
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 14 MB

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SETUBANDHA
40. The waters of the ocean rolled in to the beach, displaying the lustre of the emerging gems turned over by the commotion, with the coral-reefs rent asunder, and the pearls shooting up like foam.
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41. The whirlpools of the ocean, now engulfed, now released by the afflux of water, with their expanse now hidden for a moment, now laid bare, became calm and turbulent, silent and boisterous by turns.
42. Rolling and heaving, the ocean seemed about to turn over27 in its bed, seeking to give rest to its long pressed side.28
43. The sky was half hidden by the sea, when it was driven (from the northern shore) by the impetus of the arrows, and obstructed by the Suvela mountain (in the south).29 With the southern region vanishing from sight, it appeared to be curtailed on one side.30
44. Even the terrible regions of the ocean, deep down to the nether world, and unseen even by the Primeval Boar,31 and untouched even by the Mandara mountain,32 were convulsed (by the arrows).
45. The ocean, rolling into each of the chasms, deep as the sky, caused by the impact of the arrows, roared and tumbled into the nether regions, as if in dread of the fire of the epoch of destruction.
46. The whales that had tasted nectar, being coeval with the churning of the ocean, with the fallen peaks of the Mandara moun
27. Lit. about to lie down on the second side.
28. i.e., the lower depths of the sea. The idea is, the surface waters seemed to go down, and those of the lower depths seemed to be driven upwards by the commotion.
29. The legendary mountain of Lankā.
30. i.e., the sea, obstructed by the Suvela mountain, rose sky-high, obscuring the southern region, and the sky seemed to be diminished in area owing to the virtual disappearance of the south.
31. Visņu in his Boar incarnation while lifting the earth from the ocean. 32. During the churning of the ocean.