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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Gaüḍavaho
173. The fire approaches the Lord of gods, trembling in fear, as it were, its flames fluttering with the breeze set in motion by the multitude (uppamka) of chowries being waved (over Indra) by the heavenly women.
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174. The fire blazes up in the sky, being stuffed (and intensified) (nividio) by a cluster of lightning-streaks, fully exposed after the bursting of the mass of clouds and (finally) resulting, as it were, in the circle of orbs of (twelve) suns.
175. The snakes began burning up, driving far off the fireHames by their straight, hissing breaths (sumkāra) and keeping the emerging smoke pent up in their circle of dancing hoods.
176. Seṣa holds aloft the circling mass of smoke breaking out over his back, (looking) like a canopy (viāna) of Visnu's bodily complexion, formed overhead on account of His laying himself on him (nivesa).
177. Madana (the god of Love) blazed up (and) for the purpose of finding relief for his (burning) body, possessed by the flames of fire, he was (found) clasping the neck of the pitcher in the form of the moon's orb.
178. The fire somehow reached the underground treasurespots of Kubera, its emergence being rarefied by the (quenching) shower of the poison (liquid) emitted by the guardian-snakes.
179. The mass of fire-flames, when their vivid obstruction was brought about by the bodily halo of the wriggling Väsuki, looked brownish like a cluster of the slightly loosened matted hair of god Śiva.
180. (The fire) looked like the Son (Kartikeya) of the Three-eyed God (Siva), as He stood on the day of His birth, with all His parts collected together and restrained in the cage of its fire-flames.
181. (Such is our King) who displayed such playful activity (against his enemies), assuming the form and appearance of the enemy of Kamsa (Krsna Visņu) at a time of the Universal destruction, when (even) gods were engulfed in the flames of the destructive fire, inside the cave-like bowl of the universe.
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