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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frame had been damaged when trampled by Hanūmat, 27 crashed into the sea, with the wind filling the caves.
47. The summit of a mountain, pervaded by the rumble of the water-filled clouds, obstructed by the clash of the mountains in the sky – was it not reduced to a hundred fragments as it dropped on the sea, carrying with it the leafy groves of creepers?
48. Parts of the white bushy tail of the Camarī deer,28 savagely torn off by the crocodiles, turned over by the impact of the mountains, could be recognised on the sea, even though covered with foam, because the blood welled out from the wounds.
49. The Siddhas29 abandoned in fear the groves of creepers, with the ground moist with perspiration caused by diverse modes of amorous dalliance practised by them. The agelong butlets of the mountain streams were wiped out, and the waters of the ocean rolled in a hundred directions.
50. A herd of elephants that entered a large whirlpool turned round and round, raising their trunks, and holding up a distressed cub, while the leader of the herd kept a prowling sea lion off.
51. Sītā was somehow absent from Rāma's heart only so long as he watched the rivers (entering the sea), being driven back by the massive mountain peaks dropping in front of them, and rocked by the force of the wind dashing against the waves.
52. The waters heaved, bringing up the partly burnt coralreefs and the conch shells blackened by fire, and drawing out the broken feathers of Rāma's arrows stuck fast in the sea floor. 30
53. The bottom of the sea. with the waters parted asunder (by the falling mountains), could be seen, with the terrified animals lying still, and the furious serpents darting upward, and the
27. Hanümat had planted his feet on the Mahendra mountain to leap over to Lanka in quest of Sītā.
28. Those on the sinking mountains. 29. A class of supernatural beings imagined as living on the mountains.
30. The relics of the conflagration of the sea caused by Rama's arrows (see Canto V) are fancier as emerging from the sea when the waters were troubled by the mountains.
29. A class of subthe conflagration of the the sea when th