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His finger-balls were rough like the cavity of an old worn-out spoon. His chest was filled with visible blood-vessels, and in the interior,-full of dust,--a venomous snake, making a loud hissing noise was resting himself; in it there was a mass of bones only. His belly was pot-shaped and his waist was broken at some places and could be grasped in a fist His testicles we re hanging like the fruits of the Válunki plant and his male generative organ was as big as that of a big elephant, His legs were full of disgusting and uncovered rows of hair and long like palmyras. His feet resembled an expanse of share-pointed stone, and his toe-nails were frightful like a large spade. Besides, he was spreading fire-flames from the cavity of his horrible mouth, He was shaking the front portions of palatial buildings by striking the surface of the ground with the blows of the soles of his feet. He was hindering the progress of the chariot of the Sun by the bolt in the form of his long arms extended high up He was making his firm teeth visible while giving out a loud roaring laughter. A terrible, collected series of skulls, was hanging from his neck to his seet. He had adjusted mungoose on his ears in place of earringe. He had placed a huge venomous spake in place of the sacred thread of a Brāhmaṇa. He was dressed in the skin of a hunting leopard. His body was stained with blood and flesh. He had tied bis shoulder with a very formidable and debilitated boa-serpent. He was jumping, dancing, laughing, and growing tall and taller, and was uttering terrifying sound. This terrible form of the demon was increasing every moment and it was as dark as great thick clouds. Having completely known the malicious fraud of the god, i ardbamāna Kumāra, fearlessly dealt bim, as in a sport, a powerful blow with the fist on his back.
Then bit as if by a blow from a thunder-bolt, and giving out unpleasant sounds by a blow with fist, the god became As submissive as a little child and as his body had become greatly debilitated, he began to utter hundreds of piteous cries.
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