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toes are imagined to be the young ones of Sesa, who have clustered round the feet, to lend support to Seṣa out of proper respect for him (r), to enable him to bear the burden of the earth in
her new form.
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1047. Her feet, red-lustred with a profuse (5) application of the red lac-dye (3) are supposed, as it were, to be enveloped in the red hue of jewels (4) on the circle of the hoods of Sesa, as she placed (fr) her feet on them.
1048 She was being carried along (a) by the multitude of royal swans, who collected (f) round her, being attracted by the jingling sounds of her anklets (), as her feet gracefully ( लीला ) moved in a gliding gait ( घोलाविअ ). The bunches of swans are imagined to be the clustered coils of the hoods () of Sesa. Cf. शौक्ल्यात् शेषफणासादृश्यं राजहंसानाम् । Com.
1049 She is wearing, round her waist, a brilliant band of rays ( किरणकलाव), thrown out (उग्गिण्ण ) by a girdle-string ( रसणाT) of gold (f). This shining band had the same lustre as that of the tawny-coloured mane (4) of the Boar (faf), which stuck () to her (the earth), when she was lifted and placed on His shoulders (a) by Visnu who became the Boar for a purpose (T), viz. to save the earth from deluge.
1050 As people approached her in her female form for doing all kinds of homage and service to her, they had their reflections, in various poses, cast in the jewels of her girdle (RGMRAO) and it looked as if these people were engaged in various activities (a) such as going up (T) on the high, elevated portions of the earth or digging up (3) the depressed areas there.
1051. The deep cavity of her navel (ffa) was, as it were, a notch made by the sharp tusk (a) of the Boar in the midportion of the earth uplifted by Him; and the thin hair-line (Ta) on her stomach issuing from inside the navel was, as it were, the column of darkness coming out () from the nether world.
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1052. The lovely stomach of the Earth-Maiden, uneven (fa¤¤) with the wave-like (a) three rippling folds, is imagined to be the plough-furrows ( सीरमग्ग) facilitating the emergence ( णिग्गमण ) of Sita, who had stayed safe, without harm (fr) underground.
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