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
10. The loud roar (2717) accompanying the killing of the demon had so affected His throat that His attempt at speech failed in its utterance of definite words, although the form of the Man-Lion was already discarded.
11. The elephant, the deer and the loud thunder ( 37) of clouds are ordinarily the objects against which a lion's fury is directed. This one viz. The Man-Lion, however, ignored them all and concentrated his wrathful outburst only against the Demon
12. The brownish mane with its mass o' reddish hair () is imagined to be a heap of lightning-streaks loosely hanging in the air, as the supporting clouds are whiffed away by the fury of His roar.
13. 'A demon named Hiranyāksa had dragged the earth to the bottom of the sea. To recover it Vişnu assumed the form of a boar, and after a contest of a thousand years, He slew the demon and raised up the earth. The Boar's tusk is fancied to be a lotus-stalk emerging from the bulbous root of the lotus implanted in Vişnu's navel.
14. The earth ordinarily rests on the great Serpent Sesa. Visnu also reposes on Sesa. In His incarnation of the Boar, however, it looked as if He Himself is supporting the earth, as His form stands reflected in the jewels on the hoods of Sesa.
15. The earth, resting on the tusks of the Boar, happens to be tossed up far upwards by the violent breaths of the Boar. The earth, therefore, with Sesa down below, appears to be holding an umbrella upside-down in the form of the coiled body of Sesa to protect herself from the blazing suns, who are pushed deep down at the bottom of the sea.
16. The body o' Visnu in his Dwarf incarnation was full of depressions and protuberances in its various parts in the upper and lower portions. The Poet imagines that this is due to the fact that the worlds had to be somehow forcibly stuffed into His body, as in a sack, which ordinarily could not contain them.
17. The heavy pressure of the earth, placed up above, has forced out from His body His tip of the mouth and the four feet. The Tortoise, therefore, bears the huge burden of the earth on His body, as one would ordinarily do on his hand with five fingers,