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484) Let Rāhu's head, though once severed by the discus of Vişņu, be hacked to pieces again! (i.e. he undoubtedly deserves such a cruel punishment). For it (i.e. Rāhu's head) first swallowed and then released (disgorged) the moon, who spoils the happiness of unchaste women!
485) That medicine will somehow emerge (originate) and will be found out by people wandering on the surface of the earth, by which the moon, together with the full-moon night, will perish (or be dissolved or destroyed.)
486) Why did not the Creator cause a single unchaste woman to be created in the heavenly world, so that by her the moon, within her easy reach, could be immersed in a vat of blue dye ?
487) Oh great sage (possessed of supernatural power), bring from the Srīparvata (supposed to be the abode of wonderful drugs), after correctly recollecting it, some wonderful drug (medicine), by the power of which darkness will spread all round and the light of the moon will be neutralised (will perish or disappear).
488) Oh unchaste woman, do not offer even in your dream even the leaf of a tree to God Siva, who burnt down Cupid to ashes, for he bears (carries) on his head our enemy, the moon.
489) Oh full moon, oh you who are hateful to unchaste women, do not be elated with pride (at your present greatness or prosperity). For you will be seen by us, some time or other, reduced to the condition of a broken bangle.
490) Oh my friend, make haste, having filled both your hands with lamp-black. Here is seen the moon, the spoiler of the happiness of unchaste women, fallen inside the well. (You should throw lamp-black on him and blacken him once and for all!)
491) Oh traveller, why do you take the trouble of coming to me (i.e. to my place)? Even if you snatch off the garment from my loins, before whom can I complain? The village is far away from here and I am alone !
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