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the reflections (afsar) of the soft hair of chowries handled by them, appearing as if they ( tears ) are absorbed (47317317) within (siat) through fright.
698. The darkness from inside the temple - cavities goes out (vits) in the form of the particles from the mass (3973) of ichor, thrown out (Frost), as it were, by the bright rays of the stock of pearls stored itside their temples.
In the next five Gāthās (700-704), the Poet refers to the following legend with reference to the chiselling of the sun carried out by fagarantir :
सूर्य married संज्ञा, the daughter of विश्वकर्मन्. His effulgence was so over-powering that his wife gave him grey or 'Shade' for a handmaid and she retired into the forest to devote herself to religion. While thus engaged and in the form of a mare, the sun saw her and approached her in the form of a horse. Hence sprang the two Aivins and रेवंत. सूर्य brought back his wife संज्ञा to his home and her father, the sage faga hf, placed the luminary on his lathe and cut away an eighth of his eflulgence, trimming him in every part except the feet. The fragments, thus cut off, fell blazing to the earth and from them fa9a9f formed the discus of विष्णु, the trident of शिव, the weapon of कुबेर, the lance of कार्तिकेय and the weapons of other gods. The Com. has a different version to give about this episode. Cf. Tarenfurahit I 3777f ra taart भर्तुस्तेजः सोढुमशक्ता सती ततोऽपससार दूरम् । ततो भगवान भानुस्तदनुरक्तः radotsfigrafirar UTE CRAIGRU FETET TETAT I Com.
700. The smoke, which is gulped every day by the sunlight, is caused, as it were, by the chopping strokes of the pointed ends (HR) of the chisel () against the hard bones of the sun's body given by facet to trim the sun.
701. The day's brightness in its various parts was being curtailed (पडिबद्ध) in proportion to the number of chunks (सअल) chiselled out (agf ) from the sun's body every day. cf. sfacrat ar TEUETTİ TARAFT
F TICÆ I Com. 702. At every blow (TCU) of the chisel on the body, the sun's mouth would open out in agony, revealing the lustre of his teeth. It appeared as if at every time the mouth so opened, the lustre of his teeth was the bright moonlight ( OET) that clung to his teeth at the time when the moon entered his mouth every day,
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