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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number and are named as -- teraz, questa, 27m, 9445, 350, पुष्पदन्त, सर्वभौम and सुप्रतीक.
233. As the wings were clipped, the mountains began dropping down through the sky on the earth. The flocks of birds on mountain-tops were thrown up in the air and were being swept off by the winds blowing with force upward (JHEAT). They just flew up a little up above (17304837) and again rested on tops of the mountains, as they settled down on solid ground.
234. The rows of forests on the surface of the mountains. also began to move away (31F cut). As a result their shadows began changing their places, according as the light of the sun moved over to different areas. The area which, for instance, was under a dark shadow, soon came under the bright light of the sun. And gusts of winds blowing upwards uplifted every leaf of the tree, like the ears of a horse standing erect, which made the forestgroves look thin and sparse (पविरल).
236. The full bodily form of the goddess of victory (Parent) is not to be observed. It is only seen in the form of a necklace, as it were, shown in love's dalliance (TT). The Poet's fancy on the sword-blade, on the sharp edge of which is clinging a row of pearls, extracted from the temples of elephants slain on battle-fields.
237. Fame is white, while ignominy or ill repute is black. Both these reaching the directions are held by them as woven. gar ands, as it were, of white Mālati flowers interspersed with blueblack lotuses (Fam).
238. The King is a pivot, as it were, a Cakravartin, rooted in whom the circle of kings (775777), as mentioned by Kautilya in his Artha-fāstra, moves about, like the ring of planets moving round the Polar Star (eta).
239. The King's glory is all white and therefore imagined to be the moon's orb, on which the blue flashing sword, being brandished, looks like the dark spot usually found on the moon. The reading forefaffm og makes no sense.
241. fac...37156311-' (The sword) attracted towards them by their adverse planets.' Cf. विमुखेन प्रतिकूलेन पञ्चमादिकेन भौमादिWHERE $9 astFTA fag Com.