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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Gaüdavaho
1110. The directions, with the obstruction (avaroha) of smoke and emerging dust gradually subsiding, appear to be (enveloped) in a thin (cloak of) darkness, as it were, although the nightfall has far and fully progressed (ārūḍha).
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1111. The sky, black with the darkness being massed up in between the smothered (and subdued) light of the sun (in the west) and that of the moon (in the east), has become like a swordblade with bright edges on both its sides.
1112. The sky, with the darkness slightly forming up (dar abaddha) on the horizons (peramta) and turned dark-blue like a dried up (osukka) lotus, looks like the discoloured bosom of a female quail (lāvaa).
1113. Suparna (i. e. Garuda) in the form of the rising mountain, having extinguished the twilight fire (by sprinkling ) a collection of (nectar) drops in the form of a bunch of constellations, lifts up, in the sky, the moon's orb, (which is ) like a jar of nectar.
1114. Look at the moon's orb, reddish like a big lump of candied sugar, the ring of the deer (-shaped spot) clearly discernible due to the (withdrawal in) flight of the swarms of bees in the form of darkness.
1115. The moon (sasaimaha), like a jar (on a pan), is tossed up by the balance-rod of the sky with its projecting strings (keu) in the form of the rays (of the sun and the moon ), (the other pan on the rod) being pressed down behind (in the west) by the weight of the lumpy orb of the sun.
1116. Flushed red with (erotic) excitement, caused by the companionship of Cupid (who stands by) fully equipped, the moon steps out (in the sky) with his curved bow now fully stretched, (to form) a circle under the guise of the ring of his halo.
1117. Over the rising mountain (uaa), the reddish moon, with his thin layer of darkness loosened and slipping down, gets the appearance of the intoxicated Plough-wielder (i. e. Balarama), whose blue-coloured lower garment has dropped down (lhasia).
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1118. The moon's orb, reddish like the interior navel-like cavity (nahi) of a conch, bursts (on the horizon), the red colour