Narrative Tale in Jain Literature

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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NARRATIVE TALE IN JAIN LITERATURE
its forehead was fashioned like the belly of a large water jar; its eyebrows were like lizards' tails, dishevelled, and of an aspect disgusting and hideous; its eyes were protruding from its globular head, being of an aspect disgusting and hideous; its ears were exactly like a pair of winnowing sieves, disgusting and hideous to behold; its nose was similar to the snout of a ram, and its two nostrill were fashioned like a pair of cooking-stoves with large orifices; its beard was like the tail of a horse, of an exceeding tawny hue, and of an aspect disgusting and hideous; its lips were pendant exactly like those of a camel; its teeth in length looked like ploughshares; its tongue was exactly like the pan of a winnowing sieve, disgusting and hideous to behold; its jaws in length and crookedness were fashioned like the handle of a plough, and its cauldron like cheeks were hollow and sunken, and pale, hard and huge; its shoulders resembled kettle-drums; its chest in width resembled the gate of a goodly town; its two arms in bulkiness were fashioned like the shafts of smelting furnances; its two palms in breadth and bulkiness were fashioned like the slabs for grinding turmeric; the fingers of its hands is length and bulkiness were fashioned like the rollers of grinding slabs; its nails were fashioned like the valves of oyster shells; the two nipples on its breast depended like a barber's pouch; its belly was round like the dome of an iron smelting furnace; its navel in depth looked like rice-water bowl of a weaver; its penis in length was fashioned like the rope netting of a meat-safe; its two testicles were fashioned like the sacks for holding yeast; its two thighs were fashioned like a pair of shafts of smelting furnaces; its knees were like the cluster of blossoms of the Ajjuna tree, excessively tortuous, and of an aspect disgusting and hideous; its shanks were lean and covered with hair; its two feet were fashioned like the rollers of large grinding slabs; and its nails were fashioned like the valves of an oyster shell.
95. The knees of this deva as he approached were shaking and quaking, his eyebrows were knit and bent, his tougue was protruding from his widely opened mouth, he wore a chaplet made of lizards; a garland of rats hung round him by way of adornment; he wore earrings made
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