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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Gaüdavaho
821. The lords of snakes look beautiful, as they fanned (viambhamta) the flames of the poison-fires, doubled (in volume) by their rise of wrath, (the fire-flames) appearing like Garuda's feathers, slightly bitten off and being chewed (by them) in their mouths.
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822. The stance (thiam) of Ananta (Sesa), by which the globe of the earth is held motionless, resting, as before, on his main (basic) hood, while attacking (ahiutta) Garuda with the other hoods, looks striking (sahai).
823. The (piercing) thrusts of claws (nahanivaa) by the Lord of birds (Garuda), although hard as thunderbolt, prove futile (blunt) on Vasuki's chest, hardened, as it is, by the tough scar (formed) by the friction of the Mandara Mountain.
824. The hooded cobras feel sorry (visuremti) (frustrated) to find that contacts with the Lord of birds, being repelled (osāria) by their own furious hisses (sumkāra), could not be effected (napadamta), their anger being doubly increased because of ineffective (vihala) excitement of Mouths (itching for attack).
825. With the massive columns of trunks, noisy with (hissing) breaths, being ( twisted and) rolled about by the Quarter-elephants rushing in bewilderment, the nether world draws away, appearing as if it is bent down (namiam) under (the burden of) all snakefamilies resting (for shelter) on the body of Sesa (seṣattha).
826. Thus was He (the King), in his incarnation of Krsna (Visnu), carried (vubbhai) respectfully by the son of Vinatā (i. e. Garuda), who acquired prominent glory for having shaken off multitudes of (poisonous) cobras.
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827. Variegated (karambia) with lighting-filaments in the form of (flashing) sword-blades (being brandished) by Vidyadharas roaming about in confusion, the sky bristles luminous and fierce, as if with massive columns of hair ( cihura), upraised and erect (to mark) a portentous occurrence.
828. The moon carries a cluster of stars glued over his orb (bimbaghaḍdia), looking like rows of the tiny fangs of Rāhu (viḍappa), bitten (into the moon) in the act of making a morset of him and chewing it.