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a refrigerating remedy to the back of the Tortoise, painfully bruised a little by the Mandara mountain.
1039. Laksmi, who was thus forcibly salvaged out of the ocean, left sore and distressed ( vihura ) after having been gradually churned, is even to-day carried over his chest by this King.
The miserable condition of his enemies' wives
1040. The broad surface of their bosom, with its darkening shade, caused by the clotting of blood ceasing to circulate (mudha) as a result of its being beaten with hands ( palms ), shows as if it has gone grey because of smoke coming out from the fire of separation smouldering inside their heart.
1041. The big streams of tears (from their eyes ), crystalclear for want of collyrium ( ņiramiana ), patch up (from above to form continuous lines of white lustre, joining) the ends of the rays of the uplifted jewel-like finger-nails of hands placed (underneath the chin) to uphold the face.
1042. Their sighs, getting for a time pent up and accumulated (pum jaijjamtā) by the obstruction of thick, overhanging tresses of hair (on the face), are made to eddy in circles, thus heating up their broad cheeks.
1043. Such were the bodies of the wives of his enemies, impaired by the visitation of widowhood ( vehavvalambha), just when the King knitted his eye-brows in a frown in a casual outburst of anger.
The King who is no other than Visņu
1044. (Visņu ) of whom the conch Páñcajanya manifests resemblance (dambara) with the primordial Egg, when from His · belly one of the (three) worlds enters its interior, blown (in it) by His mouth's breath.
1045. This (King) is Keśava ( Visnu), who now looks charming, reposing on his own glory, as on Sesa, displaying vast expanse in the vicinity of the ocean.
The Goddess of Earth approached Visnu ( i. e. our King ) in the beauty of human form
1046. (The Goddess of Earth) looking lovely with the bright rays of her toe-nails clustering round (ghadiehim ) her lotus
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