Gaudavaho

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

Page 323

Gaüdavaho
226. "Up went the mountains (in the sky), slowed down (in speed ) by the heaviness of caves filled with winds, and their peaks thickly screened by trees spreading out (in size ) on account of the velocity (of mountains )."
227. "The mountains ascend in the sky, with their broad cavemouths illumined by stars, moving unsteady, as they are, being dragged about by winds ( set in motion ) by their respective (flapping) wings (pehuna ).'
228. “ As the mountain Himālaya did his graceful flight, discharging frosty showers, the people started to shiver, feeling distressed by the (unexpected) sudden (acch( tth )akka) onset of winter."
229. “Obscuring the sky in their flight and at a high altitude looking small when the sky came out in view, the mountains suggested that the sky ( kham) is, as it were, meagre ( and small ) ( madaha ) at the bottom but huge and extensive at the top."
230. “When these great mountains flew up very high and when midway, the spray of the cascading streams vanished (from sight) (atthamia ), they looked astonishingly small, having ( as it were ) lost their huge bodies (forms )."
231. “The roaring violent wind, thick and heavy, having been ( so long ) pent up, fills whatever sky-pocket the flying mountains vacated."
232. “The mountains fly upward, their thick, dense shadows receding from the sides, reforming in conformity with the passage of their lower base and then gradually diminishing, while the streams of ichor ( dāņa) on the quarter-elephants, flowed down from their wings."
233. “ Flocks of birds, being swept by the opposing upward winds facing them, are forced to fly up a little; but they come down again and perch on the mountains dropping down from the sky."
234. "The forest-groves, with their shadows quick-moving as the light of the sun's rays changed its area ( of illumination, corresponding) with the receding movement ( of the groves ), appeared thin and sparse, their foliage ( umbrella ) having been upturned by the ( wind's ) velocity."