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its sharpness and was not, therefore, eager to sharpen it again on the whetstone (ATT), with a view to cutting off the remaining tenth head. Cf. दशमं शिरश्छेत्तुमनेन शङिकतमिति स्पृशतोऽभिप्रायः । Com.
428. Rāvana is credited with the heroic feat of uprooting the Kailasa mountain, balancing it on his twenty hands and then putting it down. Siva was astonished at this feat and patted him for it.
429. There is a story that Rāvana imprisoned the gods and made each of them perform some menial office in his household : Thus Agni was his cook, Varuna supplied water, Kubera furnished money, Vāyu swept the house etc. The wind feels it uncomfortable to move slowly in his household. It is due to his fear of Rāvana and not because he is restrained in his movement by the sighs of grief from the gods. Conflict with the Pārasīkas.
431. The blood rushes to their faces, mounted by anger (ETATES). It comes out the moment they are struck by swords.
432. The pool (fa ) of blood stood solid (forfest) and visible on the ground, which roundabout was dug out by the excited trampling of soldiers. This soldified blood appeared like the brilliance of jewels on the hoods of Sesa, revealed because the ground came to be excavated upto the depth where Sesa dwells.
433. The rut of the elephants shoots up in a stream upwards through the small (56) apertures in their temples, because their usual downward flow has been obstructed by their trunks coiling and twisting up (5f3T) to give a free play to their tusks, in their attempt to give a slanting blow. Ofurg-ofzufa: fazione दन्तप्रहारः । Cf. वप्रक्रीडापरिणतगजप्रेक्षणीयं ददर्श । मेघ० २
434. The soldiers would refuse to give up their life, unless the master's mission is accomplished (TAHTNUT). They, therefore, shut their mouths by drawing in angrily (fct3T) the lower lip with the upper row of teeth and thus obstructing the life departing.
435. The female jackals run helter skelter, trying to swallow bits of flesh from the dead bodies and find it painful, as there are darts imbedded. They give out hoarse (facht) howls, the sounds of which spread far and wide (fazfess3t), moistened, as they are, with blood particles (ATFUT37—50C).
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