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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mountains and the Poet takes this opportunity to indulge in fine poetic fancies, the scenes of which he visualises in his powerful imagination extended over 19 Gāthās ( 440-458). Says he "the masses of mountains are being driven along, their bottoms grating, their trees and water-streams set in motion, big boulders tumbling down, the mountains, rising and falling in 'waves', Cross over the uneven surfaces of the earth" (445). These lofty mountains, proceeding onward under the driving pressure of the bow's tip, are being smashed by quarterelephants, suspecting them to be their rivals, rushing to attack' (446). The places where the mountains were removed and the places where they were lodged by the King-both these looked quite different now, having completely changed their appearance' (450). 'Greater damage was done to the mountains by their enforced movement, than by the outrage of their wing-cutting, after which they had been happy, having secured stability and having grown, in due time, forests and grass' ( 456 ).
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Yasovarman then comes over to the bank of the river Narmadā, who at one time had fallen in unrequited love for the royal sage Kārtavirya. The love-sick condition of the river, imagined as a fair lady, is described by the Poet in the next 6 Gāthās (460-465)'. Parts of her body become yellowish-pale in spots where the sandalpaste is applied (to give her relief) in her agony of love's torment, looking as if her sandy mounds are exposed to view, because of her debility (as observed in her thin stream)' (462). "Often times her restless bodily activities in the form of waves terminate just in her heart, greatly agitated by her longings of a union with her lover, the pleasure of which is relished, having been conjured in memory but lost soon after' (463).
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