Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Gaüdavaho
jewels in the form of finger-nails ( #fot) of palms, placed under the chin to lift up the face (वयणुव्वहण).
1042. They give out long sighs (UTATE) which, coming out, meet with the obstruction (FUTETE) caused by thick, long tresses of hair hanging over the face and are massed and pent up (957gruia temporarily (EUA). Thus obstructed, they turn into eddies (777695wvifa) moving round and round and thereby heating up (उम्हविअ) the broad cheeks (गंडवास).
1043. The wives of enemies, waiting upon the King as captives, presented such bodily conditions (stats qoxifa) in their misery, even when, just casually, the King knitted (fanfhzt) his eye-brows in frowns in feigned (लीला) outburst of anger (रोसुग्गम).
In the next two Gāthās ( 1044-1045), the Poet reiterates his fancy about the King being Keśava ( Visnu), reposing on his fame, as Vişnu does on the body of Sesa. .
1044. The great God Visnu holds inside His stomach the three worlds. His conch bears (284) great and gorgeous resemblance (cat) with the primordial egg of Brahmā (THE) all at once (375); and when He blows the conch, one of the worlds (quiat) is forced out from His belly (53727311) by His powerful mouth-breath (FAT31) and made to enter (विसंत) the conch which He holds to His mouth. Cf. भगवतो हि हरेरुदरे त्रयो लोकाः स्थिताः तेन तदाधारत्वेन अण्डत्रयमपि तत्र स्थितमिति कोष्ठ्यपवनप्रेरितः अन्यतमो लोकः शङखाभ्यन्तरे प्रविष्ट: इति शङखः अन्यतमFroscarafea: herala i Com.
1045. The King's fame has extended (3TATA) unrestrained upto the vicinity of the sea (30H ). It has thus spread like the body of Sesa, on which, like Visnu, he reposes. Hence is he Keśava himself.
A great protector that he is, he, as Visnu, was visited by thə goddess of Earth who assumed a human form to seek His protection and help in her troubles. This the Poet describes in the next 17 Gāthās (1046-1062).
1046. The earth as a globe is supported on his head by Sesa. Now, to approach the King she has assumed a female human form, with her lovely lotus-like feet, which are gripped (afts) and brightened (are) by the lustrous rays of toes (UHF). These