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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________________ 122 Gaüdavaho 1092. The sun, with his chariot and horses, his yellowish red form being enveloped by darkness, gets the lustrous hue of Garuda, with wings uplifted (to hold the weight of the Destroyor of the demon Madhu (i. e. Visnu ). 1093. As the lustreless (ạirāava) sun has his rays turned pink by the mountain dust, the daylight, mixing up with darkness, moves unsteady, ( becoming ) grey like a crab (kulāra). 1094. The sun's orb, nestled inside the nest of woodsticks ( kilinca) in the form of its own ( lingering ) rays, falls down from the tree of the setting mountain, like an egg-lump of the Lord of birds, moist (on its outer surface ) with the foetal fluid ( kalala ) in the form of the twilight glow. 1095. The elephant, in the form of the nightfall, gulps the sun's orb like his morning lump of food, the extreme end of his palate in the form of the firmament, pink with twilight glow, made visible when ( the mouth is ) slightly opened out. 1096. With its encircling ring of the halo of twilight pushed up high, the sky looks beautiful like a big well (avada), with its protective wall (padibamdha) newly constructed and with the sun's reddish orb (reflected in its water ). 1097. Look (uaha)! With the darkness advancing from the east and with the sun's orb suspended over the (lower ) region of the ( western ) direction, the sky (appears ) like Garuda, who has seized an elephant and a tortoise (in his claws ). 1098. The bright twilight glow, with the sun's rays cling. ing (to it) in the manner of filaments, topples down like the Sumeru mountain, pushed overboard by the great boar in the form of darkness. 1099. The sun's orb, like a huge egg, marked with a reddish tinge, having now been laid aside, the moon, like a second lump of egg, is carried (inside) by the Vinatā-like Goddess of the firmament. 1100. The lustreless dispositions of the hovering rays of the sun, (projecting) straight like falling streams of showers, become murky grey like erect columns of palm-forests and develop the form of the magic city of Gandharvas. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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