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312 like elephants. Even though advancing easily, as both were very powerful, they put the king of tortoises868 in danger of his life at every step.
As they had agreed, “It must be fought with the eye-fight," they stood facing each other, their eyes unwinking, like another Sakra and Isana. Facing, they looked at each other's face, their eyes red, looking like the sky at twilight with the sun and moon on its two sides. Both stood looking at each other for a long time with immovable eyes, like Yogis meditating. The eyes of Rşabha's eldest son closed, like a blue lotus overcome by the rays of the sun. The Cakrin's eyes gave water in the guise of tears, as it were, for the funeral ceremony of the great fame arising from the conquest of sixpart Bharata. Then the gods made a rain of flowers on Bāhubali, like trees shaking their tops at dawn. The heroes, Somaprabha, etc., made a great outcry of joy, like that of birds at sunrise, at Bāhubali's victory. Then King Bāhubali's army played instruments of victory, excited as if at the beginning of a dance by the dancer Fame. The powers of Bharata's soldiers were checked, as if they had swooned, or were asleep, or suffering from disease. The two armies were united with depression and joy, just like the two sides of Meru with darkness and light.
The King said to the Cakrin, “Fight with the voicefight. Do not say 'It was won by the law of the crow and palm-tree.'” Like a serpent touched by the foot, the Cakrin said angrily to the King, “Very well, O conqueror.” Bharata gave a loud battle-cry like the bellow of Īśāna's bul1,864 like the trumpeting of Sakra's elephant, like a cloud's thunder. His battle-cry, going forth, penetrated heaven and earth, like the floodwater of a great river the banks on both sides, as if 868 577. The tortoise supporting the earth.
590. The bull is the vehicle of Isāna, the Indra of the second
heaven.
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