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SETUBANDHA 8. Fierce and glaring, and resembling the flicker of a smoky flame, Dvivida's eyes, like those of a serpent, did not regain their calm, even though full of joy.
9. Sarabha uttered a piercing yell that reverberated from the mouths of the caves, and seemed to rend the broad expanse of the Malaya slopes; while he pressed his limbs, dripping sweat in a fit of rage.
10. Wrath clearly showed on Nisadha's face, pink like Aruņa, the charioteer of the sun, and beautiful like a lotus that had just opened; like as the sun gleams at dawn, rosy through the presence of Aruna, and beautiful with the lotus beds bursting into bloom at the moment.
11. As Suşeņa burst out laughing in anger, his face, with the lips parted? for a long while, resembled the orb of the sun when it was rent in the middle and red as blood, portending evil.
12. Angada was shown to be ready for action by his face beaming with joy, and red like the partly emerging orb of the sun; like as the day as it starts in the east is revealed by the morning, aglow with the crimson lustre of the slowly rising sun.
13. Hanumat, who had achieved the task assigned to him, 8 had no desire to make any trivial manifestation of pride. Selfrestraint becomes one that hath fulfilled the master's command, and serves to avert calumny.
14. Sugrīva, whose eyes became serene, as his wrath was appeased at the sight of the high spirits of the apes, burst into laughter, drowning the noise of the sea, the sharp points of his teeth being revealed by the quivering lips.
15. Lakşmana, confident of his strength and that of his elder brother, neither talked nor worried, utterly despising the sea as well as Rāvana.
16. Rāma's gaze, emanating from his visage, rested on Sugriva's face, red as shining coral, like as a flitting line of bees passes from a lotus to another lotus, red as coral.
7. Lit. with the interval between the lips revealed. Cf. Krsna in Extracts. 8. See 1.36 ff. 9. i.e., saves one fron. the charge of vanity.
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