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behaving like a black cloud. He, transformed into a cloud, looked at with great fear by the simple women of gods, Siddha by name, doubting His downfall, should go His journey quickly. He, desirous of moving at His will to enjoy heavenly pleasures, transformed into a celestial form of a cloud and fulfilling desires of women by emitting flashes of lightning, he said, should, with His face turned northwards, fly up very quickly from that place and go His journey. The Sage, he said, should not be afraid of transgressing mountains, crossing impassable rivers and inaccessible regions for He was capable of moving through the sky and so He should proceed on His joroney and quell the pride taken by the quarter-elephants in the bigness of their trunks. He was asked by the demi-god to endure one blow of his sword struck against his breast, hard like an adament. Owing to the blood gushing out of His breast on account of the heavy blow, His body would assume excessive beauty like that of a black cloud rendered beautiful by the lustre of the flashes of lightning. If He did not agree with the proposal referred to above, He should bear one charge of an arrow assigning beauty to him like that of Vişnu, clad in clothes like those of a milkman, possessing a blue-dark complexion and having his body decorated with shining feathers of a peacock.
Stanzas 61-118 :These stanzas describe the route to be travelled over by the Sage, transformed into a cloud, with the distinctive peculiarities of the temporary stoppages as below :
On ending the talk about a fight, he said that the Sage, transformed into a cloud, should fly up to the sky from the spot where they were to traval the route leading to heaven and told Him that He would be looked at by farmers vigilently thinking that the fruit of the agricultural labour depended on Him (i. e. upon the Sage transformed into a cloud). He, surrounded by successive flashes of lightning, possessing lustre like that of the shining rainbow pleasant owing to the grave thundering sounds given out, possessing complexion resembling black collyrium,
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