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A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAM
another during their fight and pounce down upon one another with fury and rashness1.
At 71.23-33 the operation of various weapons is described. Fire sparks are emitting from the striking weapons. Crackling sound is heard. The horses, elephants and chariots are seen without their riders. Banners have been torn off. It also contains a loathsome description of the soldiers wounded and killed in the battle.
There is variety in the description of hurling of missiles and countermissiles by the fighting parties at 12.126-130, 5960-66; 61.4348 end 71.60-68, but they all are described on the one and the same pattern.
Another variety is introduced by describing individual fight between Vaiśravana and Ravana ( 8.110-120), Rāvana and Indra (12. 131-137), Rāma and Rāvana (61.64-68). The fights between Lakşmana _and_Kharadüşana ( 45.9-11), Indrajit and Sugriva (59.52-56), Lakşmana and Rāvana ( 71.51-57 ) are usually preceded by challenge and counter challenge.
The poet has enhanced the effect of the heroic sentiment by the use of onomatopoeia and rythmic devices. The commotion in the battlefield has been vividly represented by sound effects. Action
1. हण छिन्द भिन्द निक्खिव, उत्तिष्ठुत्तिट्ठ लहु पडिच्छाहि ।
परफोड ताड मारय,
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सूरासूराण इमो, वट्टइ अहियं परिक्खणाकालो । जह भुज्जइ प्रहारो, न तहा जुज्झिज्जए समरे ॥ मा भाहि कायर तुमं, दीरणं न हणामि जं च परहुत्तं । ते विसो पडिणिश्रो, प्रज्ज तुमं चेव नट्ठासि ॥ कोइ भडो सन्नाहं, सहसा विच्छिन्नबन्धणं दठ्ठे । संधेइ साहुपुरिसो, जह नेहं विहडियं सन्तं ॥ दन्तेसु धरियखग्गं, प्रबन्धेऊण, परियरं सुहडो । जुज्झइ प्रविसन्न मणो, सामियपरितोसणुज्जुत्तो ॥ सीएक्मेक्का छुरियापहरेसु केइ पहरन्ति । असिक यतोमरेहिं, सुहडा धायन्ति अन्नोन्नं ॥ केएत्थ गलियसत्था, गरुयपहाराहया हिमाणेणं । पट्टि करेन्ता, अन्ने लोलन्ति महिवट्टे || हत्थी जज्जरियतरणू, मुचन्ता रुहिरकद्दमुद्दामं । छज्जन्ति जलयकाले, गिरि व्व जह गेरुयालिद्धा ।। ६१.३१-४१
