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 45. The mountain streams, reddened by the minerals washed by them, meandered in the direction in which the mountains leaned, pushed by the arms of the apes.
46. The mountains, turned round by the apes, 35 seemed to turn round amidst the eddies of the waters of their streams swirling and rushing in a united flow, as if they were whirling in the whirlpools of the sea.36
47. A pair of bees, with the wings heavy-laden with the honey of flowers, could not leave a cluster of blossoms shed by a sylvan creeper leaning sideways,37 even though they had partaken of the honey.
48. When the waters of the mountain lakes surged up,38 the lotus beds rose aloft, flowering in contact with the rays of the sun. Tinted by the fragrant honey of the flowers, they were darkened inside by the bees, some at rest, some hidden, and others flying about.
49. Deeply rooted in the earth, some mountains, when their peaks were clutched by the apes, 39 inclined only when they were pushed up by the huge erect hoods of the infuriated serpents at the base.40
50. The ever-flowing brooks, swaying as the mountains swayed, and turbid with the mud that was stirred up, swelled for a moment as they ran into one another and became large streams.
51. The mighty serpents, adhering to the base of the mountains, were pulled out41 as they gasped and twisted about, looking alternately black and white,42 with half of their bodies writhing inside the earth.
35. In the process of uprooting.
36. i.e., while the mountains were turned round, the streams ran into one another and became a whirling mass of water, in which the mountains seemed to whirl.
37. Because of the swaying of a mountain. 38. During the uprooting. 39. For uprooting them. 40. Cf. verse 36. 41. i.e., by the apes while uprooting the mountains. 42. Because the back was black and the belly white.