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venomous snake, with a large body resembling a mass of colly. rium, and darkening the thicket of the forest by his intense blackness resembling the borns of wild baffaloes, with eyes more red then that of the colour of a cock's crest with a pair of tougnes as fickle as lightning; olever in inflating its curved, round, very strong, and well-developed hood, producing terrible noise like the formidable wind at the end of an age of the world, and advancing rapidly with a very wrathful gait towards Vardhamana Kumāra.. Vardhamana Kumāra knowing the real state of affairs, threw him for off like a withered piece of string, holding him by his left hand.
The god, becoming impudent and careless about future issue assumed the form of a body and began to play with Vardhamana Kumāra, By his natural circumspection Vardhamana Kumāra became successful in game with all the boys and riding on the back of all of them, he made them walk about After the rest of the boys had walked around, it was now the turn of the god who had assumed the form of a boy. He bent down his back and as soon as Vardhamana Kumāra was seated on it the god with the object of terrifying Vardhamana Kumāra, assumed the form of a demon and began to grow tall and taller. This time he assumed a very hideous form. His hair were more harsh than those of a hog or a boar His head was as big as a potter's pot, and his forehead resembled the inner hellowed out portion of the part of a pot. His eyebrows were reddish and contained entangled hair, His pair of eyes were as deep as wells of Mārwar, and were deep yellow coloured. His nostrils were flat like the flanks of a big hearth. His cheeks were hollowed out like the cave a big mountain. His molar teeth resembled the tail of a horse. His lips were hanging like the lips of a camel. His teeth were protruding and curved like those of an elephant and formidable. His tongue was trembling like a flag moving to and fro with wind, and sharp like a sharp-edged sword. His neck resembled a dried trunk (of a tree) and his arms were like large earthen jars. His hemispherical hollows of the hands were flat like winnowing fans and his fingers resembled dolls of stone.
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