Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 24782/24782; HI 24782/24782; GU 24782/24782; chapters 645. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.
That army, with parasols shattered, weapons falling, its proud array destroyed by arrows, entrails spilling out, and eyes rolling in fear, became even more frantic.
The cries and rushes of the night-roaming demons together with the elephants became alike to those of elephants afflicted by lions, crushed by an ancient lion. The syntax of the comparison is compressed in the transmitted wording; पुराणसिंहेन literally means “by an ancient lion,” and the comparison may be understood as referring to elephants crushed by such a lion.
They, though being checked by the monkeys’ showers of arrows, while sending forth their own showers of arrows, run on—the night-roving dark clouds—as if dark rain-clouds split apart by the wind.
Their heads severed by blows of the discus and their limbs crushed by blows of maces, the demon lords, split apart in two ways by the striking blows, fall like mountains.
He was seen, all in a continuous mass, as the night-roamers—whose necklaces and earrings were hanging down and who resembled dark rain-clouds—were being struck down, as if dark mountains were being hurled down.
The unabridged Sanskrit, 645 sargas, every verse numbered kanda.sarga.verse. Not a translation: this is the text every English witness is checked against, and the one the Sarvam pass translates. Whole-edition checksum is pinned through the TOC (corpus:check), not per page.
Free Library: Sanskrit + transliteration + English + Hindi + Gujarati meanings. EN 24782/24782; HI 24782/24782; GU 24782/24782; chapters 645. Meanings are machine-assisted study drafts, not a scholarly edition.
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