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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________________ Notes 165 the symbolic staff or Rod of Punishment (que) to support himself and obtain strength therefrom. For the description of a kaficukin. Cf. 31TETT 574afada HUT TETAT I et aufs Tarta : 1 antes asfa FA ÅT FITCTT I gparafarmacias Farref o V. 3. 218. Scattered heaps of (white ) fame of the king are supposed to be the huge piles of broken bracelets of enemies' wives, thrown away by them when they became widows. 219. The King's sword, covered with shining pearls extracted from the temples of the enemies' elephants, is fancied to be the lotus stalk planted (571-347) in the water of the lotus-plant, the fond residence of Laksmi. 220. Your sword has pledged itself to give protection to the frightened ones. In this category now come to be included even your enemies who are mightily afraid of you. Your sword has, therefore, no scope left to play its part of destruction. 221. The enemies fought valiantly, but later gave up their fight and retreated. You observed their backs out of curiosity, as they were running away from you. Later they surrendered and, as they bowed at your feet in submission, you stroked their backs in admiration for the initial valour they displayed. 223. A feeling of pity causes tears in the eyes as much as an outburst of anger would cause drops of perspiration on the forehead. There is no one, says the bard, who wishes that the tear-drops caused by pity in his eyes, while observing the wretched conditions of his enemies, be substituted by angry drops of perspiration on his forehead. 224. The mountains, just before their flight, withdrew within themselves and compressed (fufc37) their bodies as an athlete does. The result was that collectively they became very heavy and their weight was transferred to the surface of the earth and through the earth to the Sesa down below, who was thus put to a great strain to bear this heavy earth. 225. As the mountains were in flight, the sun's orb moved at times within the intervening spaces ( B TS) of their wings. The bright lustre of the sun's orb over there gave an illusion that it was Indra's thunderbolt that has contacted the wings in a clash and not the sun's orb. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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