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86
Adipuranam
The mobile being, emitting a distressed sound from the cave-like holes, the great life-force, was about to depart, as if seeking strength in death. ||46||
The mobile-branched, mobile-being, mobile-loose-girded, he, the Adi, had attained fickleness in name, thus he was mobile-immobile. ||47||
The enjoyments of the elephant-forest, the clashing of horse-hooves, had crushed the upper surface of the Sahya mountain, making it level with the ground in an instant. ||48||
From the western sea-shore, and from the middle mountain, and from the Tungavaraka mountain, marked by high cliffs, ||49||
He, the Krishnagiri, and he, the Sumandara mountain, and the Mukunda, were overrun by the victorious forces. ||50||
There, the western-born elephants, with short necks, excellent in appearance, with thick, long, smooth teeth, black, with good senses, soft skin, broad backs, tall bodies, red tongues, lips and palates, proud, with long tails and lips, with a fragrance like that of lotus-madness, content in their own forest, valiant, with strong feet, good bodies, were brought by the lords of those forests, with great joy or sorrow. ||51-53||
The many rivers flowing towards the east and west seas, whose hair is the forest and whose buttocks are the high banks, were crossed by Maharaja Bharata, like daughters of the Sahya mountain. ||54||
The terrible Bhimarathi river, moving about, seized by fearsome crocodiles, and the terrible Daruveena river, with its whirlpools created by a group of snakes, ||55||