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803. Whose ( listeners ), expecting to provide empty space (room) (ovāsa ) for more poetic excellences, push down, with heads nodded in wonder, whatever good utterances ( already heard) still stay in their ears after having fully filled them (ears).
804. Such a poet (that he is ) has been asked, with eye-lashes widening in wonder, (to speak about our King ) at a time when life-stories of good men are narrated by the learned men ( gathered and) sitting in an assembly.
805. Sesa holds up the circle of his hoods, suppressed by the pressure of the earth, which is put down (ohura ) by the weight of water, his swelling ( visatta) throat remaining contracted.
806. The (mighty ) pillar-like trunks, held upward ( uddha) for a moment by the Quarter-elephants drowning in the ( deluge ) waters, look like thick columns of comets ( dhūmakeu) shooting up (to indicate ) world's destruction.
807. The oceans (maaraharā), with the sun's orb floating in the interior of the billows surging up ( soaring) on the path of the sky, appear to possess the submarine fires ( breaking out inside).
808. The masses of the deluge-clouds, with streaks of lightning coils dropping out, are being gulped now by water, in revenge (sānurāa) as it were, since the clouds had been drinking water every day (in the past ).
809. The sun, being pushed up ( samvellia ) by the waves, is being presented, as it were, by the ocean (to serve ) as a big lamp to the God Murāri ( Visņu), who has taken up his bed inside the watery abode.
810. Quite different became the colours and the tastes of all oceans mixing ( samvalamta) with one another, strange and peculiar like a unique (aiivva ) concoction (cocktail) of milk and liquors.
811. The mountain Meru sinks ( under water ), with the noisy hosts of gods collecting together, some of them having ascended and some ascending the tops of the mountain ), while the loud gurgling sounds of water ( kalaala ) were gradually subsiding, as its caves were (being ) filled ( with water ).
812. The Three-eyed God (Siva ) steps into the crescent Moon, as if in a silvery boat, as he (the Moon ), (usually ) over
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