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splinters of Indra's thunderbolt, which have still remained imbedded in the sides of the mountains, when their wings were cut off.
446. As the mountains move, impelled by the violent pricking of the bow-tip, they are smashed, on the way, by the Quarterelephants (आसागअ), who suspect (संकालुअ) them to be the hostile rival elephants (975-T37) rushing at them.
447. As the mountains move, they leave behind big bottompits at their bases; but they are soon filled by the big boulders, tumbling behind from their peaks. Another phenomenon. We find fresh water-streams (64TT) spouting from the holes bored by the bow piercing (a) the mountain-side.
448. The mountains at their bases (1) had originally taken up the whole space of the nether world (97377). They are now pushed (fragt) by the bow, the tip of which pierces through one side of the mountain and comes out (furerea) on the other side. The mountain thus stands suspended ( 4537) in the air on the big bow. It is held balanced on the bow for a short while (थोअतुलिअ) and then slowly released (मुच्चंति) on the ground, lest the sudden fall may smash the earth ( THT).
449. Over the mountains were big river-streams forming at places deep pools of water (1937fa375). As the mountains are evacuated ( THET3T), these water-streams (Fohla) dropped down, to be later drunk (fqvuifa) or sucked by dry lands, left over in the places of the mountains.
451. The vacuum or empty space, created in the middle of the earth, looked like the sky dropped down, while the network of the mountains on the borders (ia) appeared like the earth gone up in the sky.
452. The mountain, egged on by the bow, fell into the sea and filled one side (9779th) of it. The sea accordingly was reduced in size (Hafst) and appeared teeming with aquatic creatures.
453. The day's light and lustre, at the time of dislodging the mountains, was lost (faha), but it came out in full refulgence, as if focussed or concentrated in mid-region, from which the mountains were cleared away.
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