Book Title: Samraiccha Kaha
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ 105. 18 ] gressed even by those who move in heavens and whose trunk was very tall. (176) Then on seeing the cruel wild elephant whose temples were reluctantly left by the clusters of bees, coming swiftly on the side of the banyan-tree. (177) [105] While all his limbs were trembling with more fright, he, with tremulous eyes and scratched face, saw here and there, and found the well covered over with grass. (178) 117 Now fearing death and greedy even of the moment's life, he threw himself without a support in the dilapidated well near the banyan-tree. (179) And he stuck there to a clump of grass, grown on the steep walls in it; and he saw the terrific serpents, angry by the shock of the fall. (180) On the four sides, whose fire-like eyes were full of some poison; who were quick; who were terrible on account of raised hoofs; whose bodies were made up in coils; and who were desirous to bite. (180) And finding below, the mouth of the boa-constrictor,-whose body was big like the trunk of the elephant presiding over a direction; and who was black and 'terrible with red eyes. (182) He-thinking 'So long as there is this clump of grass, I have my life,'-saw, as he looked upward with his mouth raised, two rats, there, black and white, of big bodies and sharp jaws; their mouths were engaged always in cutting its roots. (183-184) Then the wild elephant, not getting the man and raging, gave exceedingly the buttings to the banyantree. (185)

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