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Gajidavaho
9. Bow to the Lord Visņu in His incarnation of the ManLion, who, splashing (pallavia) the fringes of the firmament with the blood of the dissected Demon, appeared to have unfolded the evening ( scene, to satisfy the stipulation ) of the time of the enemy's death.
10. Victorious is the throaty voice of Visnu, which, for long, destroyed the articulation of (other) words by its growl, His throat having been made hoarse by roar (bukkāra ), even though He had cast away the form of the Man-Lion.
11. Victorious are the angry outbursts ( samrambha ) of the Man-Lion, (directed ) solely against the Demon, completely ignoring the Quarter-elephants, the moon-deer and thunder rasia) of the mass of deluge-clouds.
12. Victorious is the Man-Lion's massive neck with its reddish mane, which is, as it were, a collected bundle of lightning streaks, now left without support, as the clouds were shattered by the fury of His roar.
13. Victorious is the tusk of the Great Boar, jutting out from the passage of His mouth, like a lotus-stalk from the bulbous root of the lotus inside the navel of His stomach.
14. Bow to Him, who, in His state of the Boar in which He transformed Himself by His power, bore the Earth Himself, as it were, although (actually) resting on Sesa, since His reflection was cast (ghadamta) in the jewels of his hoods.
15. Victorious is the Earth along with Sesa, dug up and (tossed ) far away (dūrukkhaa ) by the Boar's breaths, thus looking as if (She is ) holding an umbrella (up-side down ) to ward off the (blaze of) the suns pushed underneath at the bottom.
16. Victorious are the various bodily parts of Visnu in His Dwarf incarnation, depressed and elevated (thaudam) because of the uneven ( distribution of flesh on His body, having been stuffed, as it were, with worlds that could not be contained ( napahuppamta) in His small stomach.
17. Victorious is the Great Tortoise lifting the (sunken ) Earth with His body, as with a hand, with His ( out-stretched ) five fingers, since, under the pressure of the Earth, His mouth-tip and four feet happened to be pushed out (ạisāria).
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