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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Gajdavaho
433. Streaks of ichor are ejected upward through the tiny apertures of their temples by the elephants, as their natural (downward ) speed (of oozing) is blocked by their own trunks, colled up in the act of striking a slanting blow (pariņai) (of the tusks ).
434. By soldiers, who tightly shut their mouths with their lower lips, angrily (pressed and pulled in with the help of the (upper rows of) teeth, resistance is offered to the life departing, as it were, while still the Master's mission remained uncompleted (unaccomplished ).
435. The female jackals hoarsely (yelling) scamp about, their mouths agonised in their zeal to gobble the parts of dead bodies with darts imbedded (in them ), their ( shrill ) cries being widely spread over drops of blood.
436. The battle-field looks as crowded as at the start (of the battle ), even though the soldiers have been routed ( scattered ), striking terror (dimba), with the dead bodies (rumda) of men (riders ) stuck up to their ( dead ) horses in their swollen condition.
437. The victorious elephant, with splinters of (the mahoot's ) hook flying out from the gaping wound in the frontal joint of his temples (ārakkha), goes on shaking his mouth (head), thinking them to be ( a hovering swarm of ) bees disengaged (from his temples).
438. The same armies, with bodies scattered (palhattha) all over, lifeless and (hence ) heavy, had become ( a burden ) unbearable for Sesa (to support ).
439. Thus was a great, fierce fight of the King with the Pārasīkas, which resulted in heavy destruction and climaxed in his victory.
King Prtbu Measuring the Earth
440. The mountains, situated near both the seas (Eastern and Western ), although ( uprooted and ) made to move away with their second half of ranges, came in (to the same place with their other half ) and covered up as much area as they were made to evacuate ( nijjamti ) ( when pushed back ).
441. Even as only one mountain, that covered up the whole world, was dislodged (and set aside ), the whole earth, re-established in its full aspect, started coming into full view.