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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Sunset
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1083. The interior parts of mansions become beautiful with paintings (shown ) vividly bright (in their colours ) now, after their (east-facing) window-passages are made (clear ), devoid (of screens ) and empty, the light of the sun having gone (to the west) behind (the buildings ).
1084. The forests now become rarefied ( viralāamti), as it were, made loose by the exit of their thick shadows (inside), the portions of these forests) at the bottom and in the middle becoming vividly visible by the rays of the sun coming over them obliquely.
1085. It appears as if the fragments of the sun's hot rays, distributed for a time in different directions ) on the top of the mountain and later tossed up far (into the sky) in the course of the gradual lowering down of the sun's orb, become clustered in buds and then assume the forms of luminaries ( in the sky).
1086. The sun and the moon attain resemblance ( karani) with the blood-red temples, toppled down ( Ihasia), when the DayElephant, rich in the pearls of planets, is killed by the Evening-Lion.
1087. The constellation-blossoms bristle over the SkyBakula tree, supported in the Sun-Basin and filled with the TwilightWine (poured out) from her mouth by the (lady) Night.
1088. At the end of the day, the sun's orb, pink like the concavity (puda) of a flower of the land-growing Kadamba tree, rolls over (ovattai) ( the setting mountain ), its light, reddish like the eye-corners ( kona ) of a buffalo exhausted by the sun's bright heat.
1089. Look! As the sun's orb is held like a sun-stone (jalanovala ) over the red lac of twilight, the shadow of the night issues out like a veritable massive line of smoke.
1090. The sun's orb now bristles (damtura) with rays, pink and grey on account of the massing of smoke, the twilight lustre getting lifeless (mujjhamta) and discoloured (visama) by the (suffocating) treatment ( uvaāra ) of the darkness.
1091. The thick mass of darkness, kissed by the pink orb of the setting sun, gathers all round, having a charming appearance of the great Buffalo, his neck dripping ( with blood ), ( having been ) cut by the Goddess Kāli.