Lilavaikaha

Author(s): K R Chandra, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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contracted in a mass), as if drawn together by the heavy
sphere of the sun sinking down. 446. Darkness rose in the sky like the dark beam of a balance
with its (other) end weighed down by the burden of a huge
gold-ball attached to it in the form of the sun. .447. The face of the night, with faint darkness mixed with the
remnants of evening twilight looked like a saffron flower slightly darkened by dew-fall (or, with the faint darkness mixed with the lingering twilight, the face of the (lady that was) night appeared to have the lustre of saffron slightly
darkened by dust blown into it, br by tears). 448. As the lotus in the form of the day closed (its petals) and
its pericarp in the form of the sun (appeared) broadened, the darkness spread around like the swarm of bees flying
out (from it). 449. The sandal-wood tree in the form of the sky was encircled
by the black serpent of darkness, as the sun, (like) the
potent antidote tree nearby, was deceased. 450. When the lotus- bed in the form of sunshine faded, the sky
looked (lit. became) like a lake with the night-lotuses of stars shining (every where) and with the water of darkness
(only) slightly visible. 451. The entire sky was covered with darkness resembling the
smoke of the submarine fire emanating from the innerl space as the waters of the ocean were divided by the fi
of the sun. 452. Then, as if produced from (dark) clouds full of water, or
as if created from swarms of bees, the thick darkness,
black like a cuckoo's throat spread (all over). 453. The sky was as if made of darkness, the quarters were as
if plunged in (or anointed with) darkness and the whole world became like a forest marked with the hooting of
owls. -451. Then (slowly) came to sight the bright lustre of the white
banner-cloth of the chariot (or house, of the moon, acc. to