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HAMSASANDESAM
109
Gentle Sir, having stayed there for a moment,
ania 54.
you, who are the most powerful of wing, (please) fly
(across) with speed, (my) friend, aiming straight at the
city of the Ten-faced (Ravana), just as if (you were) an
arrow leaving the shore-bow, provided with the bow-string
in the form of (two) different sets of mountain-streams
coming down, with the deep pleasant notes of a (plucked)
bow-string, from the hill-top on either side. animado a
1) weds to gridsab inne
55. Friend, (on your way) you will see the ocean,
(which) by its conjunction with the forests of coral,
(appears) as if (it were) a forest enveloped in forest-fire,
(or) as if (it were) the sky overspread by the (colour of
the) twilight, (or) as if (it were) an elephant marked (for
beauty) with red lead, (or) as if (it were) Vishnu
furnished with (i.e., clothed in) his own favourite (golden
yellow silk) garment, (or) as if it were a dark cloud split
by a flash of lightning, (or) as if (it were) a couple with
a single body (between them).
56. The ocean had its body increased (i.e., had its
area added to) by the earth (ie., land) having been dug
up by my immeasurable strong ancestors, who wished to
find out the steed that had been misappropriated (stolen)
by the Ruler of the Gods (Indra). If (therefore) he (the
ocean) directs the hidden-winged mountains with a view
to do you honour, (please) do not decline the loving
regard suitable to a relative, even
tired.
though you are
109
Gentle Sir, having stayed there for a moment,
ania 54.
you, who are the most powerful of wing, (please) fly
(across) with speed, (my) friend, aiming straight at the
city of the Ten-faced (Ravana), just as if (you were) an
arrow leaving the shore-bow, provided with the bow-string
in the form of (two) different sets of mountain-streams
coming down, with the deep pleasant notes of a (plucked)
bow-string, from the hill-top on either side. animado a
1) weds to gridsab inne
55. Friend, (on your way) you will see the ocean,
(which) by its conjunction with the forests of coral,
(appears) as if (it were) a forest enveloped in forest-fire,
(or) as if (it were) the sky overspread by the (colour of
the) twilight, (or) as if (it were) an elephant marked (for
beauty) with red lead, (or) as if (it were) Vishnu
furnished with (i.e., clothed in) his own favourite (golden
yellow silk) garment, (or) as if it were a dark cloud split
by a flash of lightning, (or) as if (it were) a couple with
a single body (between them).
56. The ocean had its body increased (i.e., had its
area added to) by the earth (ie., land) having been dug
up by my immeasurable strong ancestors, who wished to
find out the steed that had been misappropriated (stolen)
by the Ruler of the Gods (Indra). If (therefore) he (the
ocean) directs the hidden-winged mountains with a view
to do you honour, (please) do not decline the loving
regard suitable to a relative, even
tired.
though you are