Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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although they lifted themselves up a little for flight" (114). “The thunder-bolt, swinging up and down at every resistance, gets itself whetted on those very mountains on whom its edge got blunted, as it came down with a crashing sound in its violent, bouncing impact " (117). “The mountain-beloveds suddenly start rolling on the ground in an agony of miscarriage due to fright, when they see big birds coming back the moment they flew out from the caves " (118). “The mountain-beloveds, heavy with young ones, hiding inside their (womblike) caves, fearfully reach the outskirts of the sky, grown lazy and languid because of pregnancy, as it were "(125). “ Wings loosely spread out, the mountains are seized by the rushing thunderbolt and then falling down finally after a high upward flight, they are unable to jump up even slightly" (128). "Thunderbolt strikes the mountains, mountains,slashed by the thunderbolt and collapsing, strike the earth and the earth also, hit by the falling mountains, smites Sesa's circle of hoods" (129). “Mountains, struck by the thunderbolt, had their flowers, fruits and foliage turned into burning pieces of charcoal and the creeperbowers, places of Love's assignment of the heavenly couples, became objects of mourning to them " (136). “The thunderbolt would not leave even those mountains which threw themselves in the sea, their long downward descent not yet completed and hence their peaks are to be seen stretched far and high in the sky" (145). “One would imagine, it was not the mountain that entered the ocean, but that the ocean entered the mountain, in its impetuous haste, flooding its inside of valleys and caves, huge like the interior of the nether world” (147). “A mountain-couple gives up their life in the blissful satisfaction of their bodies in the grip of a final cold embrace, as the warmth-giving wings are burnt up” ( 157 ). "The