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DHANAPĀLA AS A PROSE WRITER
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"कृतासारसंरोधश्च प्रावृषेण्य जलधर व्यूह इव पौरलोकानां महान्तमातंकमकरोत्""
The vassals of Vajrāyuddha came out to fight and they were engaged in terrific duels with the vassal folk of Kusmasekhara who were pitched up in battle on the turrets of the ramparts. The duels entailed the mutual reprimands. The auricular passages of the persons standing hard by were deafened by the lion roars of the soldiers given to spite. The surface of the sky had been brought to the state of a ground by throws of holeless stones (i.e. opaque stones). The weapons in the hands of the timid people were made to thwart by the calls of the trumpets beaten ruthlessly. The groups of terrible pedestrians were being scattered by the sprays of oil heated by fire and sprayed by syringes. The foundations of the ramparts were being dug up or rooted out by the persons lying in covert with helmets put on. The terrific cries of the enemy staying in the forest were being heard by the urchins biting their lips in anger. The entry into the recesses of different walls was being prayed for by the wall diggers carrying bucklers. The perturbed elephant drivers were issuing out of the trappings of the elephants smouldered by the fire of the sparks arising out of the heaps of grass. The golden diadems of the kings were melting down through the arrows burning with fire clinging through speed. The huge showers of stones were falling down following the creaking noise of the door panels of the principal roads having been struck by hoes. The arrays of tuskers fleeing being disturbed by the strokes were being seen by the vociferous villagers. In this manner the daily battles were terror provoking भयानकानि......प्रतिदिवसमायोधनान्यभवन्। The horrifying spectacle of the ocean abounding in ferocious sea fauna and the sylvan terrain adjoining the shores of Lauhitya abounding in wild beasts is equally terror provoking."
The odious or Bībhatsa (the sentiment of Horror) actuated by disgust (Jugupsā) and smacking of reeking foul smell gushing of blood, exudation of marrow and cutting of flesh etc. is available in the description of the vampire's physical structure where by his body has been described as stout and terrifying being very tall and lanky the murkiness of his radiance spreading all around he was rendering the earth as if suffused with collyrium, along with the mountains, islands and groves. The interstices of the toes were screened by the darkness of his own sheen made manifest by
1. TM. Vol. II p. 195. L. 1-2. 2. Ibid. Vol. II pp. 196. LL. 3-4. 3. See Description of Nature. TM II para 90 pp. 261. LL. 8. P. 262. L.1-10. P. 263. L. 1-6.
P. 264. LL. 1-8. P. 265. LL. 1-8. P. 266. LL. 1-4. P. 267. LL. 1-2 L.D. Series ed. Para 90. P. 69. LL. 31-32. P. 70. LL. 1-32 p. 71. LL. 1-11.
