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the elephants of opposing forces clash, the red lead flashes off in the air and covers the sun's orb with a red lustre, as a result of which, the sun, even though far up above in the sky, looks like his orb at sunrise after the end of the night ( रयणिविरम ) .
420. The faces of the Vanga men first became white-washed (fafer) as it were, by the lustre of the King's toe-nails. Later they became yellowish and pale, because of embarassment felt at the time of bowing at his feet.
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422. The Earth quivers with agony in her stomach, because the jewels on the hoods of Seṣa have penetrated her belly, as result of the pressure exerted by the heavy tread of the army. It appeared as if the Earth holds inside her womb the planet Mars ( आर ) in the form of her foetus ( गब्भ ) .
While describing the King's march in the South in the vicinity of the Malaya mountain, the Poet, in a Kulaka of 7 Gāthās (424-430), alludes to the great effort of Rävaṇa to propitiate god Śiva with a view to obtaining a boon from Him. The same Rāvana, when he became powerful, was picked and pocketed by Vali and was carried away by him, holding him in his armpit !
424. Rāvaṇa looks up above to the face of god Siva (3774f), favourably disposed for the grant of a boon. As he looked up, his eyes were turned upwards (3), as he seized his own hair (कअग्गह) in his enthusiasm (आदर) to cut (च्छेअ ) violently (TH) his own heads.
425. When the heads were cut, the wounds inflicted on his big and broad necks (r) were immediately made painless ( भग्गविअणा ) by the sprinkling ( सेअ ) of nectar ( अमअ) of the crest-moon (foзi) by god Siva, whose emblem (g) is the bull (वसह ) .
426. Of the ten heads which Rāvaṇa had, he cut off nine. Through the boon of god Siva they were restored back and, as Pārvati, the other bodily half of Siva (T), bent down and held a mirror to him, he could see them all in their reflections.
427. Candrahasa is the name of Ravana's sword. Rāvana felt its edge which was covered with a thick layer of the powder (r) of his neck bones, after his nine necks were chopped by him and he was fully satisfied (f) that it has retained
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