Kansvaho

SR No.: 001886
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rama Paniwada, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 266
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Story, & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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KAŃSAVAHO
house, to court (your) death? Get aside immediately:" thus speaks the elephant driver with vanity.
30. “If you do not turn aside the elephant, then he would not remain alive even for a moment:" after speaking thus, Hari, who is fierce in action, accompanied by his brother, began to overpower him.
31. Dragging bim (i. e., the elephant) with his arms, Mukunda disports turning round and round the elephant who was wet with streams of rut overflowing from his wounded temples and who had a snakelike chain fastened round his waist, as (it was done] formerly [with] the mount Mandara ( which was wet with torrents of water rushing from its broken sides and which had a snake passing round its middle part).
32. Then knocking down that enraged elephant who was indulging in useless sport [in the form] of circular movement with his trunk formed into a ring, he (i. e., Krsna) strikes him with violent slaps on the termple that was swarmed with bees.
33. When, in [course of] the sport, Hari clings to the earth, that great elephant, which pierces the ground [in order to strike him) with the pair of tusks, is not able to pull out the same as it sinks there.
34. Then Krsna, with his mind enraged, stepping within half a moment on the temple [ of the elephant] with the left foot, pulls out with both hands the pair of his tusks with [their] root-bonds broken and loosened.
35. When the great elephant falls down like the Black mountain that was tossed away with the wings broken by the thunderbolt, verily the globe of the earth trembles as if dislodged from the multitude of the hoods of Sesa.
36. How long does the great elephant move voluntarily along the path trodden by Ambastha ? Thinking thus Vāsudeva sends, at that moment, [that] wicked Ambastha, indeed, along the path trodden by the great elephant.