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1, 24. VISHNU AND THE GODDESS OF THE EARTH. 5 shape of a boar, this world together with all animate and inanimate things in it, went away into a place hidden from the world.
19. Ganârdana, the chief of the gods, having become invisible, the goddess of the earth began to consider, ‘How shall I be able to sustain myself (henceforth)?'
20. I will go to Kasyapa to ask : he will tell me the truth. The great Muni has my welfare under constant consideration.'
21. Having thus decided upon her course, the goddess, assuming the shape of a woman, went to see Kasyapa, and Kasyapa saw her.
22. Her eyes were similar to the leaves of the blue lotus (of which the bow of Kâma, the god of love, is made); her face was radiant like the moon in the autumn season; her locks were as dark as a swarm of black bees; she was radiant; her lip was (red) like the Bandhugiva flower; and she was lovely to behold.
23. Her eyebrows were fine; her teeth exceedingly small; her nose handsome; her brows bent; her neck shaped like a shell; her thighs were constantly touching each other; and they were fleshy thighs, which adorned her loins.
24. Her breasts were shining white, firm', plump, very close to each other, (decorated with continuous strings of pearls) like the projections on the forehead of Indra's elephant, and radiant like the gold (of the two golden jars used at the consecration of a king).
24.1 Or 'equal in size,' according to the second of the two explanations which Nand. proposes of the term 'samau.'
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |