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CANTO VI
1. Then did the Ocean emerge, like an elephant of the quarters, abandoning the blazing sea floor, which resembled a wilderness pervaded by smoke, and was full of huge half-burnt serpents like unto trees.
2. His rugged bosom, once heavily crushed by the Mandara mountain, and bruised by the tusk of the Primeval Boar that mightily arose at the epoch of destruction,2 was afflicted by the impact of Rama's arrows.
3. His long arms, befitting his body, and covered with deep and large wounds, and fragrant with fresh sandal paste, resembled two freely overflowing streams of the Malaya mountain, lined with deep woods, and wafting the scent of the fresh sandal trees (on their banks).
4. He was wearing a radiant pearlstring, the best of its kind, which shared the qualities of the moon, wine and nectar, and lightened his sorrow at the loss of the Kaustubha gem,3 and which he had not surrendered even during the commotion caused by the churning with the Mandara mountain.
5. His weary left arm, with the bristling hair reddened by blood, was supported by his consort Ganga as she came with faltering steps; while the suffering caused by the wounds was assuaged by the touch of her hand.
6.
He approached Rama, who was easily accessible to those who sought refuge. Separated from Sītā, he was like a tree bereft of a creeper; while the gem rocks of the Malaya mountain were suffused with the lustre of his body.
7. The Ocean fell at Rama's feet, like a tree dashed down by a gale. The blood from the wounds caused by the arrows was
1. The mountain was used as a staff by the gods and demons to churn the ocean.
2. See verses 12 and 13.
3. i.e., made him forget the loss of this gem, which was taken out of the ocean during the churning, like the moon and the rest.
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