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the sons even with many requests and entreaties, they at Jast permitted them, though much against their will. Then those Mākandigas, being now permitted by their parents, (took the four-fold merchandise viz.) that which could be counted, balanced, measured and scrutinised ... as in the story of Arahannagao upto ... went many hundreds of yojanas on the Lavaṇasamudra.
(2.85). Now when those Makandiyas had gone many hundreds of yojanas on the Lavaṇasamudra, there appeared many hundreds of evil omens; e.g. a sudden thundering ... upto ...the roaring of clouds, and there also blew an adverse gale. Then that ship, being shaken, stirred and tossed, was being overpowered with the (lashes of) fierce waves; and like a (rubber-) ball tapped by the hand on a floor (or pavement), it was bouncing up and falling down; (it appeared-) like a Vidyadhara-maiden, who has mastered the magic lore she was flying up in the sky), from the surface of the earth; like .a Vidyadhara-maiden who has lost her magic loro she came down from the sky (to the sea-surface); like a Nāga-maiden, scared by the swoop of the great eagle she bolted forward; like a young mare let loose from the stable and scared by (or shy at) the sound of a large gathering of men, she was running about; just as a girl born in a noble family mutters something inarticulate when found fault with by the elders, she also produced some (strange) sound; going round in circles (like a lady) struck by hundreds of blows of the billows; (as if she had fallen) from the sky with her supports snapped (or dropped down); as a newly-wedded bride who has lost her husband weeps, shedding large and profuse drops of tears which are scattered all over her body)- she also scattered a large and voluminous mass of water broken into pieces (or drops); like a great city overpowered by some great calamity and besieged by the army of a hostile monarch, she was bewailing; like a nun absorbed in false meditation and malpractices (or deceitful tricks), she was also meditating (i.e. wás steady for a while); like an aged matron (lit. mother) utterly exhausted after traversing a big forest, she was also pænting; like a goddess who is smitten with grief when the hour of her fall from heaven comes,
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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