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1036. The sky-scraping mountain filled the sky with its ridges, the flat ground (het) and the peaks, thus evacuating or ejecting (fosser) it from its place of occupation. The directions therefore, came down from their original positions in the sky and occupied (out the mid-region (HVA) of the mountain, thin and emaciated (aloger) as it became, by the friction. .
1037. The huge mountain was first lodged (forf#3f) with great difficulty on the back of the Tortoise. As churning proceeded, the foundation or base of the mountain was scraped off (fafurfect) and the big volume (37TET3T) was thinned by the friction of the great Snake. When, therefore, the churning was stopped, the mountain could be easily lifted and taken away (ओसारिअ).
1038. The churning action of the Mandara mountain caused slight painful bruises (Gagf#3T) on the back of the Tortoise. But the layer of the earth (Hatao) at the base, made wet (quot3t) with the water of the agitated ocean, became a mud-plaster (97) placed on the back of the Tortoise as a cooling remedy (fafaa377). Cf. महोदधिमथनसमये किल कूर्मः सर्वात्मना जलधितलं प्राप्तो मन्दरभरधरणाय । ततः 972fa quat ca fastrat a Fosfaat 3taf facat Tauchfeferat i Com.
1039. The Goddess Lakşmi who was thus forcibly (HTF) churned out of the milky ocean (TXT3T), left sore and distreassed (377499faET) and later married (309 ) to Visnu, is even to-day held over his chest by this our King, an incarnation of Vişnu.
The next four Gāthās (1040-1043) describe the King's prowess and the consequent grievous condition of his enemies' wives.
1040. Grief-stricken ladies, the the wives of his enemies, started slapping and pounding their bosom. As a result the blood stopped circulating and became clotted or coagulated (5), developing a darkish colour (1HSRT) over the surface, which the Poet imagines to be the smoke of the fire of grief inside the heart, caused by separation, soiling (59) the bright and white surface of the broad bosom (urato).
1041. The tears, clean and clear, flow down in streams (314EFT) from the eyes which have had no collyrium (forcoot). They ooze down over the cheeks where they join (Freifa) to form a continuous line, the lustre shooting from the ends (a1703T) of
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