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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
90. All at once, the mountains remebered the terror of the thunderbolt, and the Earth
the thrusts of the hooves of the Adi-varāha (Primeval Boar) and the ocean the commotion of the churning – all that had been long forgotten by them."
91. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1522.318) supra. 92. For translation vide A’Sarvasva-Vimarsins S. No. (17.439) supra.
93. The enraged buffalo licks with his tongue the snake mistaking it to be a stream
of a river; and the snake drinks the buffalo's saliva mistaking it to be a pool of water amidst black rocks.
94. Out with the campaka bud; the juicy yellow turmeric is no good. Even the purest
gold holds no candle to her beauty. It has the softness of the newly risen moon; even a heap of fresh bakula flowers has nothing to show. .
95. The Creator, seeing that the moon, though full-orbed, does not attain to similarity
with your face, breaks it into pieces, as it were, to create it afresh differently.
96. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (363.118) supra.
97. For translation vide AKS. No. (51.591) supra.
98. For translation vide KP S. No. (44.429) supra.
99. The tears streaming down the eyes of his wife radiated the blue lustre of the
dark eyes, the fairness of her cheeks, and the red of her lips. To her husband it looked like a vertical rainbow (as the tears were streaming down her cheeks in straight lines.)
11. The wings of the winged mountains were once clipped/chopped off by Indra with his thunderbolt. In his third Boar-Incarnation Visnu lifted the Earth submerged in the ocean when the Earth received the thrusts of the hooves of the Adi-varāha.)
