Book Title: 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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________________ 99 66 846. Emotional upheavals of grief, sustained in the heart, are somehow passed off (borne) by the firm-minded. The great joy, however, does somehow thrill the bodies of even the great ones. The Earth as a Cow 847. "In my (attempts to) praise the Master, my speech, although repeated, just wriggles (and rolls) round inside the throat, having been halted by the distressing delight, thus appearing. as if it is incapable (of the task). ' "3 Moreover 848. With the circle of his bloated hoods, Seṣa fills the empty void within (amtovāsa), (created by the Earth leaving him to escape in the form of a cow), as his long body goes out (extending) in the form of his tail at the back (to hold the Earth). 95 849. The Tortoise himself, his mouth hidden (inside his body), assumes the form (and shape) of her (cow's) udder (āvīņa), with her quadruple teats created out of his four feet, and the lustre of whose nails looked like ( oozing) milk. 850. Immediately the rôle of the calf (tannaa) with his uplifted mouth was taken up by the Boar (Kaula) (the incarnation of) Visņu (veumtha), whose blunted snout (ghona) was being twisted about high (in the air) when first tilted up (padhamutthamghana). 851. Only the thick, accumulated mass of darkness from the nether world goes out in the way (nature) of smoke, (being expelled) in waves by the bellows (of the Earth-Cow as a result) of the spasms (parivāḍi) of her bodily pain. 852. The Sumeru mountain, loosened from its uprooted foundation (viņivesa) and dropping down over the path of the nether world, bears similarity (sareccha) with the fresh essence of the yellow (Gorocana) pigment (on the Cow's forehead). 853. With her form (and nature) completely changed at this moment, the region of her mouth, bristling with grass. playfully picked up in mouthfuls, looks like the (same) region over which (earlier) tufts (of grass) had slightly sprouted up. Jain Education International 854. At the bottom, Seṣa appears to have (mustered strong), with all his brood (collected to-gether), under the guise of the For Private & Personal Use Only / www.jainelibrary.org

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