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off from the sunlight, seemed to run fast in the wake of the shadows.78
94. The apes who had seen the mountains (from afar) saw them no more;79 those who had fixed their eyes on them seized them not;80 nor did those who uprooted them, simultaneously alighting on the ground, bring them to the sea.81
95. The trail of the apes reaching to the sea looked like a second causeway,82 being strewn with fragments of broken trees, and uneven with the mountains that had crumbled to the ground when raised aloft.
96. The host of apes that had in their onward rush passed beyond the seashore, taking the mountains with them, returned and alighted on the ground, and stood in front of Rāma, their eyes beaming with affection for him.
78. Trans. follows Rāmadāsa. Acc. to others, the Malaya mountain seemed to run, 'even as the sunlight seems to run when intersected (by passing clouds).' See Extracts.
79. Because they were quickly uprooted by others.
80. i.e., those who had purposed to uproot a mountain were forestalled by others.
81. Because others carried them off. The verse describes how the apes uprooted and brought the mountains to the sea in emulation of each other.
82. With reference to the one that was to be built with mountains across the sea.
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