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1024. The mountain has thin-streamed (afssor) rivers. As it became unsteady ( 31fz3T) and started moving and revolving (277007), the river-water, splashing against the banks in the course of its comings and goings ( 1T3TT31), shattered them (alfosgout). They fell down (furafs37) and thus made the rivers broad and wide (fa3FEHT).
1025. Lakes or reservoirs of water (foto), loose and wide at the bottom (af fafafa3545T), at first threw out their water in a thin stream (TGHETETTTT), as a result of the whirling action of the mountain. Later when the spring-holes at the bottom, through which water leaked to fill the basin of the lakes, were smashed and broken down (ansa), having been rubbed off due to the friction (णिहस), these lakes started flowing out (वहंति).
1026. Some time, during the course of churning, the Mandara mountain slows down (मंथराअंत) and then comes to a stop (वीसाम). As a result, the water-currents lose the action of being thrown out or flung at a great distance (pasu) from the mountain-side. When the whirling is resumed, the same currents (
f t ) begin once again to flow out and form a small (75) circle of a stream roundabout.
1027. The whirling (af 3), broad (772737) mountain-ridges meet and scrape off the thin and sharp-pointed (afout) tusks of quarter-elephants in the course of their revolutions and by the friction (FUEHUT) caused, they rub off and blunt or flatten (farett) the curving parts of their tusks (THYTTETH SCT).
1028. The trees and creepers scraped off and removed from the mountain-side on account of friction, the great Snake grips (955) the mountain closely. His body spreads out (aratia) and is wound and tightened (asvule) round the mountain.
1029. The slough of the great Snake Vāsuki was extricated from his body due to friction and it dropped down in the ocean making a round fence (9fd) encircling the Tortoise, as a result of the speed (77) in the whirling movement of the mountain. It thus appeared as if the ocean formed a temporary basin (आलवाल) round the Tortoise, lodged underneath the mountain.
1030. The mountain-valleys have their side-embankments scrubbed off (favvia) by the friction of the great Snake. As a
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