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136. Mountains, meeting the thunderbolt (in its blow), made their flowers, fruits and leaves look like burning pieces of charcoal, while the creeper-bowers, ( erstwhile) places of love's assignment, were being mourned for ( on account of their loss) by the heavenly couples.
137. The river-ways, flowing about on the ridges of mountains, quaking in (the agony of) mutilation, assumed the appearance of bandages on their gaping wounds.
138. What was seen by the forest-roving animals of the earth was only the clipping of wings of the mountains, as they stood ( still and stupefied) on their embankments, although they had come out from the caves in their eager desire to get down (on the earth).
139. The mountain-wings get scattered about in the sky in their (upper and lighter) halves, as they go up burning and start rolling (round and round ), while by their (lower ) halves, heavy at the bottom, they drop down on the ground.
140. Columns of smoke, massed up above the trees, having fires burning at the bottom, look like formations of shadows, thrown up by the light down below (hetthāloa).
141. Thunderbolt met the heavenly mountain Meru once again in the mighty flames on its slopes, on account of a suspicion that its wings were still intact, although they had been lopped off (before ).
142. By its own innate power, the thunderbolt might not deal such a hard and a fast blow, as it would do (to the extent of) cutting asunder a mountain, when hit with force by the wings of another mountain.
143. The billows of the oceans, stirred up by the falling mountains and lit up by the encircling lustre of the jewels (underneath ), heave high up in the sky, looking like the very mountains with blazing wings.
144. After a long time does the thunderbolt come out (from the mountain-side ), giving to the gods a feeling of sadness, causing a crater by its burning action, its flashing lustre lost, being compressed within their enfolding wings by the angry mountains.
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