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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406. forsetafa31 - fa7e5#157175PT: - The moon having lost the pride of his lustre; lustreless.
407. The earth sinks in the rains, because, as the Poet imagines, the great serpent Sesa has thrown her off from his head, when he himself was turned into a bed by the god Vişnu. afsnauf- gp241ai from the Desi word af meaning 'a ted.
409. The villages appear to have sunk or submerged (furcet) in the coiling (assa) layers (3755) of smoke, since only the treetops are to be noticed, the additional reason being that there is an overgrowth of grass (319TE) on their borders.
410. The petals of the jasmine flower are moist (fafGOUT) under the shower, half of its filaments are soiled and have lost most of its fragrance. It gets dislodged from its stem and becomes ripe (FROTHS).
413. The ceremony of waving lights (arrua) is, as it were, being done by some one (funfartifa) on behalf of the various directions (FAT371) for the King, intent on his marching expedition. Such a fancy is based on the fact that the streaks of lightning are to be seen turning and twisting in all directions.
414. The Magadha king fled from the battle-field, along with a host of his ally-kings. They, however, felt ashamed and returned back to give a fight to the king Yaśovarman. They are, therefore, compared to the sparks of fire (fafegut) falling from a big meteor (341), which rises in the sky for a time and then vanishes from sight like the Magadha King.
415. The lines of blood flowing from the soldiers slain are imagined to be the lightning streaks attracted (377377663T) by the showers and scattered about (906 ) on the ground.
416. The fictitious phenomena of the celebration of the King's victory by gods is described in this Gāthā. The gods, driving in the sky in chariots, have thrown away (afce53) the clouds. The deep sound of drums is having its echo (58112) and a thick shower of Mandāra flowers is falling down from the sky.
The next two Gãthās ( 419-420) describe the defeat of the King of Vangas
419. The victorious elephants have the decoration of red lead (figt) applied to their temples. When on the battle-field,