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like a wall or a rampart going round the whole city. The sky or ether has ordinarily its generality or 377779ca, which is infinite and is all-pervasive. In this case, however, this generality was lost (ohrhuur), when it assumed its particular, differentiating aspect (atogat), in the form of a surrounding wall of the blue sky.
496. The snakes, formerly hiding in the holes underground, got scared and remained huddled up (trojfsf3r), as the city was going up. They wanted to get out, but when they saw through the cracks (331) in the subsoil where they had their holes, the open sky, vividly visible, they stopped (atelier) where they were, desisting from going down (ओअरणा).
497. The big buildings, with top-terraces (acet), were violently shocked and shaken by the sudden upward flight (4430). As a result, they got cut and broken into two halves; the upper halves with terraces, cut away (78937) from the main portion, toppled down on the earth, while the other remaining halves (fogas) went up to the heaven, presenting quite new and different terraces now. Did the Poet keep before him miniature clay models of buildings to observe what would happen, if they were suddenly lifted up above ?
498. The city had walls dug deep in the surface of the earth and they were fed with water by the natural springs underground. As soon as the city was lifted, the earth's suport (afsaa) was cut off (fs), the springs, supplying the water, were extirpated and the wells getting dried up (100FUT), showed how deep ( THT) they were.
499. The treasure-troves, in the shape of big jars, fastened with chains and kept buried underground, were pulled out as the city was going up. They remained suspended (of farur) in the air for a time, with their chains snapped. The parts, that remained with the treasure-troves, started clanking like bells and dangling about on account of their upward movement. Cf. em एव च रणरणायमानत्वाद् घण्टात्वेन कविना कल्पिताः । दूरीकृतनिखातानि निधानानि trettoTTCTTTTectif 915GT2THTT!5e mife gorara guzt: 1 Com.
500. Couples of men and women, as they went up to the heaven, lost their mortal, blinking (THC) function of their eyes, having now become 'gods'. The gods are supposed to stare always with eyes big and open, and they never blink, as mortals
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