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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________________ 114 Gaiidavaho 1021. The groves of trees, with the ends of their branches bending low when thickly collected together by the encircling (body of the coiling) Lord of snakes, hugged the mountain-side by their tops, while they were being torn off by their roots. 1022. The spikes of the sharp-pointed claws of the Lord of birds (Garuda ), (embedded ) inside the chest of the Lord of snakes and now turned into knotty scars, are being rubbed off by the friction (of the mountain ) gratingly. 1023. Serried rows of the offshoots (pārohamālà) of trees, forming circles (parivesa ) with the increase in the speed ( of the revolving mountain ), get smashed (phuttamti), as they strike the ( mountain ) embankments at the time of wheeling round (pariatti) (in its rotatory movement). 1024. The rivers on the mountain-ridges, although thin, and small (talina), become big and wide, as their banks collapse when shattered ( vocchinna ) by the water ( splashing on them) in the course of its coming to and going away (gaagaa ), as a result of the whirling action of the moving mountain. 1025. Pools of water, with their bottoms loose and broad, begin to drain off in thin streams at first, as the roots of their ( spring) holes inside are being scrubbed off and opened out by the friction exerted by the Lord of snakes. 1026. The streams of mountain-currents, having (their waters ) ceased to be hurled at a long distance, when the ( moving) mountain slows down (to a stop ) for rest, now form gradually a small circle. 1027. The curving parts of the tusks of Quarter-elephants with their thin tips, become flattened out owing to the friction of the whirling, wide mountain-ridges. 1028. The tighter the Lord of snakes closes on the mountain, bereft, as it is, of its trees and creepers (lost) in friction, the more is he, while stretching ( his body ), wound round the mountain.: 1029. With the slough of Vāsuki dropping down by friction and in its whirling speed (raya) forming a circling fence round the Tortoise, the ocean appears to have constructed a basin, as it were. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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