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slight differences. 7 or far is sleeping on the serpent. One of his four hands holds the q or conch shel, which is formed from the shell of , a demon who lived in the sea in the form of a conch-shell. When fa changed sides during sleep the serpent was squeezed or pressed. Consequently breathed out hissingly. Filled by the breath the conch-shell was being blown, and aft or fat was awakened from his sleep. The com. uses the form दध्वने instead of दध्वान. 6 ) विष्णु कृष्ण has four arms which have individually or collectively accomplished great feats on different occasions. Here five events from his life are being referred to. The back-ground of the event of sun's breaking a pair of अर्जुन trees is like this. Two यक्षs, नलकूबर and ama, were once sporting with ladies in the river Ganges. They were excessively drunk and completely nude. R was passing by that way. At the sight of the sage a the ladies clothed themselves, but the two brothers were too drunk to mind their nudity. a was offended by their behaviour, felt that they did not deserve to be men, and cursed them that they might be turned into trees for a period of cne hundred years. They would be relieved, however, by the contact of . One day broke the vessels of milk and curds and ate the butter which enraged a very much. She tied him to a mortar, but divine as his power was, he pulled by the strength of his arms that mortar through the interspace between the pair of 3 trees (viz.. the two converted into trees) in the veranda. His pull was so forceful that both the trees were broken and uprooted, and consequently the were released from the form of trees (m. 10.10.23 ff.). Secondly, as noted above, अरिष्ट or रिष्ट was a दैत्य who assumed the form of a savage bull and attacked कृष्ण, who however, twisted its neck and finished it on the spot (. 10,36, 1-15). Thirdly, was a who assumed the form of a horse and a tacked but was killed by that hero who rent him asunder by thrusting him arm into his jaws (n. 10. 37. 1-7). Fourthly. was the son of 3 and cousin of , the mother of . He deposed his father and became notorious as the tyrannical king of Mathura. He married two daughters of , the king of Magadha. As it was foretold that he would die at the hands of a son of 2, he tried to destroy all her issues. When a, the seventh son, was born, he was taken to गोकुल and nurtured there by नन्द as a child of रोहिणी. The eighth child कृष्ण also was taken 10 गोकुल कंस sent formidable demons to destory them, but all these machina ions were defeated. Then he invited them both to Mathura to attend some games and formed certain plans for their destruction. Many court wrestlers were crushed by these brothers When tried to attack, the latter dragged him down from his elevated seat and finished him on the spot by striking on his chest (m. 10. 44. 34 ff.). Lastly,
felt offended (when his worship was stopped by ), was quickly enraged, and poured down a fatal deluge of rain with a view to wash away the aú mountain and all the peop'e of that area; but lifted up the mountain maa on his fingers and held it for seven days like an umbrella, and thus prepared a solid shelter for the people of (10 25. 19 etc). is यथासंख्यम्. 7) केशिन्
जमलज्जुण-भंजण, रिट्ठ-वरण etc.
The figure of speech
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