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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Gajidavaho
46. May the physical form of Câmundā remove your fear — the Form embellished with rod-like big veins and stuffed with coils (of entrails ), which a thin belly could hardly contain.
47. Victorious is that (Sarasvati, the Goddess of Learning ), who, having been spoiled by excessive fondling inside the (parental home of) petals of the lotus, the seat of (her father) the Four-faced (Brahmā), now wanders ( wantonly) with a stealthy step on the multitudes of poets' tongues.
48. Bow to him (Moon) whose orb appears lustre-less over the shadow of his spot, perhaps, on account of the fact that his central stock of loveliness filtered through the breach made by Gañgā (in the celestial floor ), at the time of her descent (on the earth), leaving Him void and empty ( tuccha).
49. Bow to Him (The Sun) whose chariot those horses, complexioned like Lapis Lazuli, carry, their bodies appearing discoloured because of the enveloping darkness, which, earlier, is pushed back every day (by the rising dawn).
50. Victorious is the Sun's mass of rays, which, for the world's preservation, glows dim in a shrunken collected form, but, which, expanding, as it were, at the time of the world's annihilation, intensifies itself (in a blaze ).
51. Bow to him (sesa ) who, when the Boar (Visnu ) held it up, bore the earth's globe, lessened in weight, distributed, as it was, on His many heads, while its reflection was cast in the jewels of all His hoods.
52. Bow to the pillar-like tusk of the Elephant-mouthed (Ganesa ), with His huge trunk resting on it, like the Gangetic stream joined with the column of Yamunā's waters.
53. Bow to that Ganesa, who, in his playful frolics of holding the huge trunk by means of His tusk, makes as it were, the summits of the mountain Meru an arena for the meeting of the Himalayas and the Vindhyas.
54. Victorious is the tusk of Ganapati, gathered at the end of the left half of His mouth, ( giving an impression of) His smile, as it were, when feeling abashed at (the manifestation ) of passion's ardour by His parents, Pārvati and Siva, ever united, as they are, bodily.