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1094. The setting sun is likened to a big lump of an egg (Bisfie) of the lord of birds i.e. Garuda, falling down from the top of the tree viz. the setting mountain, in the branches of which it is lodged in a nest (ufts ) formed of wood-sticks (farfet) viz. the sun's rays. This bird's egg is wet (365) all over its surface, covered by the reddish foetal fluid (7003cs) in the form of the evening twilight glow.
1095. Imagine evening (CT) as an elephant. This Eveningelephant now swallows (2005) the sun's orb as his food-lump for the morning (fast) breakfast. In the action of swallowing, the elephant's mouth is slightly opened out (17300FT), exposing the surface of his palate in the form of the reddish-pink sky, as seen (लक्खिअ) because of the evening glow (संझा).
1096. The evening glow of twilight, pushed up high and deep in the sky and forming an encircling ring by its halo (foto qft) with the glowing sun at its centre, looks like a huge well (fa375–3798), with a circular protective wall (oftare), built newly (EU) in red bricks and therefore looking reddish. It has the sun's orb reflected in the bluish water of the well, very much corresponding with the sky.
1097. With the darkness adavancing from the eastern direction (gefaefarit) and with the sun's orb hanging over the other (3797) (western) part, the reddish sky looks like Garuda who, in one of his claws, has seized an elephant and, in the other, a big tortoise. Garuda is represented as having made an effort to devour an elephant and a tortoise. Cf. पूर्व गरुडेन गजकूर्मों Hefughn rafafa sfarsi, agfestuaHETTI Com.
1098. The evening scene ( 153) of the bright twilight glow, with the rays of the sun pinned to the sun's red orb like so many threads of filaments ( T3TATTor), gives the idea of the golden mountain Sumeru falling down flat on its back (पल्हत्थइ), having been thrown overboard (9f59fces) by the great boar in the form of the thick and heavy mass of darkness.
1099. Vinatā, the mother of Garuda, is supposed to have two eggs within her womb and the glory of the sky ( faft) is imagined to be this Vinatā. At sunset she has delivered and thrown out (477) one huge egg (fa3755) viz. the sun and now she bears (795) in her womb another big egg (atsis) viz. the moon.
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