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The great mountain, with its mobile essence, was emitting a distressed sound from its cave-like openings. The great being, the mountain, was on the verge of collapse, weakened by the force of the army. ||46|| Its branches were swaying, its essence was mobile, its girdle was loose and unsteady. It had become unsteady in name, though it was still called immovable. Thus, it was both mobile and immobile. ||47|| The land on the top of the Sahya mountain was crushed to dust in an instant by the trampling of elephants in their amorous play and the pounding of horses' hooves. ||48|| The victorious elephants of the Chakravarti Bharat, intoxicated with pride, were roaming from the western seacoast to the middle mountain, and from the middle mountain to the Tungavaraka mountain, marked by high cliffs, crossing the Krishnagiri, the Sumandara, and the Mukunda mountains. ||49-50|| Bharat had also acquired elephants born in the west, whose necks were somewhat short, who were excellent to behold, who had thick, long, and smooth teeth, who were black, whose senses were all good, whose skin was soft, whose backs were broad, whose bodies were tall, whose tongues, lips, and palates were red, who were proud, who had long tails and lips, who exuded a fragrant musk like that of the lotus, who were content in their own forests, who were brave, who had strong feet, who had good bodies, and who were brought to him by the lords of those forests with great joy or sorrow. ||51-53|| The king Bharat had crossed many rivers flowing towards the east and west seas, which were like the daughters of the Sahya mountain, whose hair was their foliage and whose buttocks were their high banks. ||54|| The terrible Bhimarathi river, with its fearsome crocodiles moving about, and the terrible Daruveena river, with its terrifying rapids formed by the churning of the water, were crossed by him. ||55||