fm3068 1.ag04 The Ogress of the Plague .z20
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fm3068 1.ag04 The Ogress of the Plague .z20
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Oॐm
कर्कटी विषूचिका
karkaTI viShUchikA
:
The Ogress of the Plague
jd. after so much philosophizing,
vasiShTha
thought it was time for a story, and began to tell this Tale
:
vasiSTha said—
अत्र_एव_उदाहरन्ति_इमम् इतिहासम् पुरातनम् ।
atra_eva_udAharanti_imam itihAsam purAtanam |
राक्षस्य_उक्तम् महा.प्रश्न-जालम्¬_आवलित-अखिलम् ॥३।६८।१॥
rAkSasya_uktam mahA.prazna-jAlam¬_Avalita-akhilam ||3|68|1
||
of what we talked.about in this connection
they tell
a Tale from Olden Times
that tells of a rAkShasI.Ogress
who knows a net of riddles of great complexity
.
अस्ति कज्जल-पङ्क-अद्रेर् इव -उग्रा शाल-भञ्जिका । हिमाद्रेर् उत्तरे पार्श्वे कर्कटी नाम राक्षसी ॥२॥
asti kajjala-paGka-adrer iva -ugrA zAla-bhaJjikA | himAdrer uttare pArzve karkaTI nAma rAkSasI ||2
||
she
looks like a muddy mountain cloud
—
an Ogress
as fierce as any temple demon
.
on
the highest peak of the Snowy Mountains
she sits
—
karkaTI.Crab
is her name
.
विषूचिका-अभिधाना च नाम्ना -अप्य् -अन्याय-बाधिका ।
viSUcikA-abhidhAnA ca nAmnA_apy_anyAya-bAdhikA |
विन्ध्या-अटवी- इव देहेन शुष्का कार्श्यम् उपागता ॥३॥
vindhyA-aTavI- iva dehena zuSkA kArzyam upAgatA ||3
||
she has another name also
—
viShUcikA the Plague
.
and
she is terribly afflicted,
her body stooped,
—like *vindhya making a bow—
for
she is all dry skin and skinny knobs
.
* #vindhya - a low range of hills separating Hindustan proper from the Dekhan • in the personified `vindhya, jealous of `himAlaya, demanded that the sun should revolve round him in the same way as about meru, which the sun declined to do • `vindhya then began to elevate himself that he might bar the progress of both sun and moon • the Gods were alarmed, and asked the aid of the sage `agastya, who approached `vindhya and requested that by bending down he would afford him an easy passage to the South country, begging at the same time that he would retain a low position till his return • this he promised to do, but agastya never returned, and the vindhya range consequently never attained the elevation of the hima.Alaya.
महाबल-अग्नि-नयना रोदोरन्ध्र-अर्ध-पूरणी ।
mahAbala-agni-nayanA rodorandhra-ardha-pUraNI |
नील-अम्बर-धरा कृष्णा देह-बद्धा -इव यामिनी ॥४॥
nIla-ambara-dharA kRSNA deha-baddhA_iva yAminI ||4
||
she has
a fire in her eye
.
she fills
half the space between Heaven and Earth
&
she wears
nothing but dark sky
&
she's bound
in a body black as night
.
नीहार-वसन-च्-छन्ना मेदुर-अभ्र-शिरः-पटा । लंब-आभ्र-बिम्ब-उल्लसिता नित्य-उत्थ-तिमिरा_ऊर्ध्व.जा ॥५॥
nIhAra-vasana-c-channA medura-abhra-ziraH-paTA | laMba-Abhra-bimba-ullasitA nitya-uttha-timirA_Urdhva.jA ||5||
स्थिर-विद्युल्-लता-नेत्रा तमाल-तरु-जानुका । वैदूर्य-शूर्प-अग्र-नखी भस्म-नीहार-हासिनी ॥६॥
sthira-vidyul-latA-netrA tamAla-taru-jAnukA | vaidUrya-zUrpa-agra-nakhI bhasma-nIhAra-hAsinI ||6||
निर्मांस-नर-देह-ओघ-पुष्प-स्रग्-धाम-भूषिता । सर्व.अङ्ग-उदात्त-संप्रोत-शव-माला-विराजिता ॥७॥
nirmAMsa-nara-deha-ogha-puSpa-srag-dhAma-bhUSitA | sarva.aGga-udAtta-saMprota-zava-mAlA-virAjitA ||7
||
the foggy dew gives her a gown,
she wears a cloud about her hair;
her bright breasts
dangle like mangoes
as she towers over the darkness,
with eyes fiery as lightning bolts,
and knees like a tamAla tree,
and five-inch fingernails
.
she
has
a shrieking laugh like a snowsquall
.
her
floral bouquet
is a chain of meatless human bodies strung together,
a garland of glistening skeletons
decking her limbs
.
~vlm..68.5. A white mantle formed the covering of her head, like the fragment of a cloud; and the long erect hairs of her head, stood like a sable cloud on her crest.
~vlm.6. Her eyes flashed as lightnings, and her sharp hooked nails glistened as sapphires; her legs were as long as tamála trees, and her loud laughter was as a burst of frost. *The black Rákhasas were believed to have been a colony of African Negros in southern India and Ceylon. The Rakhs is Bax, and Sycorax of Shakespere.
~vlm..68.7. A string of dried bones decorated her body, like a wreath of flowers; and the relics of dead bodies, adorned every part of her body.
~VA.5 hidden in the covering of mist, cloud as here head-dress, shining moon is like a hanging mango fruit, long dark erect hairs????
~AS. the second line says: Smiling with a face like a low lying cloud, with hair like ever present darkness - thus with completely dark hair. I am interpreting nityotthatimira as one word meaning "always risen darkness". • In the first line, the second part should be with a head cover of thick clouds. This could mean that she was so tall that her head was in the clouds.
वेताल-आवेश-विचलत्-काल-कङ्काल-कुण्डला । अर्क-आदान-उत्क-दीर्घ-अग्र-भीम-उग्र-भुज-मण्डला ॥८॥
vetAla-Aveza-vicalat-kAla-kaGkAla-kuNDalA | arka-AdAna-utka-dIrgha-agra-bhIma-ugra-bhuja-maNDalA ||8
||
her earrings rattle with Zombie bones, dead dancing vetAlas
.
her ornamented arms
are raised above
as.if
to seize
the sun
.
तस्या विपुल-कायत्वाद् दुर्लभत्वान् निज-अन्धस: । अतृप्तो ऽर्णव-लेखाया इव -अभूज् जाठरो ऽनल: ॥९॥
tasyA vipula-kAyatvAd durlabhatvAn nija-andhasa: | atRpto 'rNava-lekhAyA iva_abhUj jATharo 'nala: ||9
||
her body is so big that she finds it a chore to get her food
.
her belly's always burning like the *vADava,
the submarine fire that eats the sea
.
~vlm.9. Her huge body being in want of its necessary aliment, caused her culinary fire to blaze like the submarine flame, which the waters of the deep are unable to quench.
*Ott. #vADava, #vADaba, #baDavA, #baDabA वाडवः [वडवाया अपत्यं वडवानां समूहो वा अण्] -adj.- coming from a mare (as milk) • –m.- a stallion, stud-horse •• submarine fire •• a kind of coitus •• the nymph #azvinI (who, in the form of a mare as wife of #vivasvat or the Sun, became the mother of the two #azvin.s • cf #azvinI) • a partic. constellation represented by a horse's head. •-• Oceanographers speak-of two sorts of luminescence in seawater: algae that blink their light (thought to be a means of frightening predators) • and gathered bacteria that glow constantly, for many days. Phenomena of the latter sort are well-known in the Indian Ocean near Somalia. Perhaps this is the origin of this metaphor, which appears frequently in yv/FM. - Somehow the doctors take the word to mean"coming from a mare (as milk)". suSr.
न कदाचन सा तृप्तिम् उपयाता महोदरी । वडव-अनल.जिह्वा -इव चिन्तयाम्-आस च -एकदा ॥१०॥
na kadAcana sA tRptim upayAtA mahodarI | vaDava-anala.jihvA -iva cintayAm-Asa ca -ekadA ||
10
||
.
not for a moment did that big belly get satisfaction
for
her tongue was like an ocean fire
.
but then one day she had this thought
:
`viShUchikA the Plague–
जंबू-द्वीप-गतान् सर्वान् निगिरामि जनान् यदि । अनारतम् अनुश्वासम् जल-राशिम् इव -अर्णव: ॥११॥
jaMbU-dvIpa-gatAn sarvAn nigirAmi janAn yadi | anAratam anuzvAsam jala-rAzim iva_arNava: ||11
||
if
I eat all the people who come here to WoodApple.Land
I'll be like undersea fire feeding.upon the ocean-waves
.
मेघेन मृग-तृष्णेव तन् मे क्षुद् उपशाम्यति । अविरुद्धैव सा युक्तिर् यया -अपदि हि जीव्यते ॥१२॥
meghena mRga-tRSNeva tan me kSud upazAmyati | aviruddhaiva sA yuktir yayA_apadi hi jIvyate ||12
||
as
a rain-cloud ends a mirage,
so too
my hunger would be filled
.
such a recourse would be correct
:
I'd live unpleasantly,
but
I'd live
!
मन्त्रौषध-तपोदान-देव-पूजादि-रक्षितम् । समम् एव जनम् सर्वम् निर्बाधम् क: प्रबाधते ॥१३॥
mantrauSadha-tapodAna-deva-pUjAdi-rakSitam | samam eva janam sarvam nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate ||13
||
but some of these travelers are protected
by mantra.s
and herbs
and fierce tapas.Austerities before their Gods
.
who could
(and how would she)
trouble an untroubled people
?
~sv.3.68.13 However, since the people of Jambudvipa are pious, charitable, devoted to god, and endowed with a knowledge of herbs, it is inappropriate to harass these peace-loving people.
~vlm..68.13. All men are well guarded by means of their mantras, medicines, austerities, devotions and charities, from all evils of the world; whence it is impossible for any body to destroy the indestructible devotee.
तप: करोमि परमम् अखिन्नेनैव चेतसा । तपसैव महोग्रेण यद् दुरापम् तदाप्यते ॥१४॥
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnenaiva cetasA | tapasaiva mahogreNa yad durApam tadApyate ||14
||
I
too
will do some practice of extreme Austerity as a firm commitment,
for
that's what gets what is, without it, hard.to.get
.
vasiSTha said—
इति संचिन्त्य सा सर्व-जन्तु-जात-जिघांसया । तपोर्थम् अथ सस्मार पर्वतम् भूत-दुर्गमम् ॥१५॥
iti saMcintya sA sarva-jantu-jAta-jighAMsayA | taportham atha sasmAra parvatam bhUta-durgamam ||15
||
so she mused
&
she grew an appetite that craved the blood
of everyone
.
then
she had a memory
:
a mountain,
remote from everyone,
it was a place where she could practice tapas,
seeking Food*
as the reward for her austerities
.
*jd. `rAkShasa.Ogres are devourers of all flesh; they'll eat anything, even their own.
आरुरोह च तच् छृङ्गम् स्थिर-विद्युद्-विलोचना । हस्तपादआदिमद्देहा श्यामला इव अभ्र-मण्डली ॥१६॥
Aruroha ca tac chRGgam sthira-vidyud-vilocanA | hastapAdaAdimaddehA zyAmalA iva abhra-maNDalI ||16||
तत्र गत्वा -अथ सा स्नात्वा तप: कर्तुम् कृत-स्थिति: । अतिष्ठद् एक-पादेन चन्द्र-अर्क-अस्पन्द-लोचना ॥१७॥
tatra gatvA_atha sA snAtvA tapa: kartum kRta-sthiti: | atiSThad eka-pAdena candra-arka-aspanda-locanA ||17
||
&
so
she
climbed the mountain she remembered,
she
with her unblinking flashing eyes,
and a body
from hands to feet black as a clustered thundercloud
.
.and having got there, having made holy ablutions, taking a place to stand,
she
made
tapas
:
she
stood
balanced
on
one
foot,
and her eyes shone brightly like a Sun and FullMoon
.
क्रमेण दिवसा: पक्षस् तस्या मासर्तवो ययु: । शीतातपेषु लीनाया: कृताया: इव शैलत: ॥१८॥
krameNa divasA: pakSas tasyA mAsartavo yayu: | zItAtapeSu lInAyA: kRtAyA: iva zailata: ||18
||
now,
in the course
of
days
and nights
and fortnights
and months passing.by
—in parade—
that mountainous body
was overwhelmed
with winter cold
&
summer heat
.
सा बभूव- अभ्र-मालाया: समासम् स्तम्भित-आकृति: । कृष्ण-ऊर्ध्वग-ऊर्ध्व-केशी च खम् आहर्तुम् इव- उद्गता ॥१९॥
sA babhUva- abhra-mAlAyA: samAsam stambhita-AkRti: | kRSNa-Urdhvaga-Urdhva-kezI ca kham Ahartum iva- udgatA ||19
||
a chain of clouds hung round her neck
.
she stood on one leg
she
stood
stiff
with stiff upgoing hair
and she seemed to be reaching for the sky
!
आलोक्य तां पवन-जर्जरित-अङ्गक-त्वक्- चीर-अङ्गण-कृति-रणत्-पवन-अवधूतै: ।
Alokya tAM pavana-jarjarita-aGgaka-tvak- cIra-aGgaNa-kRti-raNat-pavana-avadhUtai: |
ऊर्ध्व.स्थ-मूर्धजतम: पटलैर्_दधानाम् तार-ओघ-मौक्तिकम्_अज: समुपाजगाम ॥२०॥
Urdhva.stha-mUrdhajatama: paTalair_dadhAnAm tAra-ogha-mauktikam_aja: samupAjagAma ||20
||
one day
he saw her standing there
in her dark wind-withered old woman's skin,
hair upstanding in the blasting wind,
under a roof of pearl-clustered stars
&
so
the unborn `brahmA the Immense
approached her
.
oॐm
Lokesh Sharma
Jiva Das
FM3068 THE OGRESS OF THE PLAGUE 1.AG04 .z20
FM.3.50-FM.3.99
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FM.3.68 THE OGRESS OF THE PLAGUE 1.AG04
सर्ग ३.६८
वसिष्ठ* उवाच ।
vasiSTha* uvAca |
अत्र_एव_उदाहरन्ति_इमम् इतिहासम् पुरातनम् ।
atra_eva_udAharanti_imam itihAsam purAtanam |
राक्षस्य_उक्तम् महा.प्रश्न.जालम् आवलित.अखिलम् ॥३।६८।१॥
rAkSasya_uktam mahA.prazna.jAlam Avalita.akhilam ||3|68|1||
अस्ति कज्जल.पङ्क.अद्रेर् इव_उग्रा शाल.भञ्जिका ।
asti kajjala.paGka.adre:_iva_ugrA zAla.bhaJjikA |
हिम.अद्रेर् उत्तरे पार्श्वे कर्कटी नाम राक्षसी ॥३।६८।२॥
hima.adre:_uttare pArzve karkaTI nAma rAkSasI ||3|68|2||
विषूचिका.अभिधाना च नाम्ना.अप्य्_अन्याय.बाधिका ।
viSUcikA.abhidhAnA ca nAmnA.api_anyAya.bAdhikA |
विन्ध्या.अटवी_इव देहेन शुष्का कार्श्यम् उपागता ॥३।६८।३॥
vindhyA.aTavI_iva dehena zuSkA kArzyam upAgatA ||3|68|3||
महाबल.अग्नि..नयना रोदोरन्ध्र.अर्ध.पूरणी ।
mahAbala.agni..nayanA rodorandhra.ardha.pUraNI |
नील.अम्बर.धरा कृष्णा देह.बद्धा_इव यामिनी ॥३।६८।४॥
nIla.ambara.dharA kRSNA deha.baddhA_iva yAminI ||3|68|4||
नीहार.वसनच्*छन्ना मेदुर.अभ्र.शिरःपटा ।
nIhAra.vasanat*channA medura.abhra.zira:paTA |
लंब.अभ्र.बिम्ब.उल्लसिता नित्य.उत्थ.तिमिरा_ऊर्ध्वजा ॥३।६८।५॥
laMba.abhra.bimba.ullasitA nitya.uttha.timirA_Urdhva.jA ||3|68|5||
स्थिर.विद्युल्..लता..नेत्रा तमाल.तरु..जानुका ।
sthira.vidyut..latA..netrA tamAla.taru..jAnukA |
वैदूर्य.शूर्प.अग्र.नखी भस्म.नीहार.हासिनी ॥३।६८।६॥
vaidUrya.zUrpa.agra.nakhI bhasma.nIhAra.hAsinI ||3|68|6||
निर्मांस.नर.देह.ओघ.पुष्प.स्रग्..धाम.भूषिता ।
nirmAMsa.nara.deha.ogha.puSpa.srak..dhAma.bhUSitA |
सर्व.अङ्ग.उदात्त.सम्प्रोत.शव.माला..विराजिता ॥३।६८।७॥
sarva.aGga.udAtta.samprota.zava.mAlA..virAjitA ||3|68|7||
वेताल.आवेश.विचलत्..काल.कङ्काल.कुण्डला ।
vetAla.Aveza.vicalat..kAla.kaGkAla.kuNDalA |
अर्क.आदान.उत्क.दीर्घ.अग्र.भीम.उग्र.भुज.मण्डला ॥३।६८।८॥
arka.AdAna.utka.dIrgha.agra.bhIma.ugra.bhuja.maNDalA ||3|68|8||
तस्या* विपुल.कायत्वाद् दुर्लभत्वान्_निज.अन्धसः ।
tasyA* vipula.kAyatvAt_dur.labhatvAt_nija.andhasa: |
अतृप्तो ऽर्णव.लेखाया* इव_अभूज् जाठरो ऽनलः ॥३।६८।९॥
atRpta:_arNava.lekhAyA* iva_abhUt_jAThara:_anala: ||3|68|9||
न कदाचन सा तृप्तिम् उपयाता महोदरी ।
na kadAcana sA tRptim upayAtA mahodarI |
वडव.अनल.जिह्वा_इव चिन्तयाम्.आस च_एकदा ॥३।६८।१०॥
vaDava.anala.jihvA_iva cintayAm.Asa ca_ekadA ||3|68|10||
विषूचिका_उवाच ।
viSUcikA_uvAca |
जंबू..द्वीप.गतान् सर्वान् निगिरामि जनान् यदि ।
jaMbU..dvIpa.gatAn sarvAn nigirAmi janAn yadi |
अनारतम् अनुश्वासम् जल.राशिम् इव_अर्णव: ॥३।६८।११॥
anAratam anuzvAsam jala.rAzim iva_arNava: ||3|68|11||
मेघेन मृग.तृष्णा_इव तन् मे क्षुद् उपशाम्यति ।
meghena mRga.tRSNA_iva tat_me kSut_upazAmyati |
अविरुद्धा_एव सा युक्तिर् यया_अपदि हि जीव्यते ॥३।६८।१२॥
aviruddhA_eva sA yukti:_yayA_apadi hi jIvyate ||3|68|12||
मन्त्र.ओषध.तपोदान.देव.पूज.आदि..रक्षितम् ।
mantra.oSadha.tapodAna.deva.pUja.Adi..rakSitam |
समम् एव जनम् सर्वम् निर्बाधम् कः प्रबाधते ॥३।६८।१३॥
samam eva janam sarvam nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate ||3|68|13||
तपः करोमि परमम् अखिन्नेन_एव चेतसा ।
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnena_eva cetasA |
तपस_एव महा.उग्रेण यद् दुरापम् तद् आप्यते ॥३।६८।१४॥
tapasa_eva mahA.ugreNa yat_durApam tat_Apyate ||3|68|14||
वसिष्ठ* उवाच ।
vasiSTha* uvAca |
इति संचिन्त्य सा सर्व.जन्तु..जात.जिघांसया ।
iti saMcintya sA sarva.jantu..jAta.jighAMsayA |
तपो..ऽर्थम् अथ सस्मार पर्वतम् भूत.दुर्गमम् ॥३।६८।१५॥
tapo..artham atha sasmAra parvatam bhUta.durgamam ||3|68|15||
आरुरोह च तच्*छृङ्गम् स्थिर.विद्युद्..विलोचना ।
Aruroha ca tat_zRGgam sthira.vidyut..vilocanA |
हस्त..पाद.आदि..मद्.देहा श्यामला_इव_अभ्र.मण्डली ॥३।६८।१६॥
hasta..pAda.Adi..mat.dehA zyAmalA_iva_abhra.maNDalI ||3|68|16||
तत्र गत्वा_अथ सा स्नात्वा तपः कर्तुम् कृत.स्थितिः ।
tatra gatvA_atha sA snAtvA tapa: kartum kRta.sthiti: |
अतिष्ठद्_एक.पादेन चन्द्र.अर्क.अस्पन्द.लोचना ॥३।६८।१७॥
atiSThat_eka.pAdena candra.arka.aspanda.locanA ||3|68|17||
क्रमेण दिवसाः पक्षस् तस्या* मासर्तवो ययुः ।
krameNa divasA: pakSa:_tasyA* mAsartava:_yayu: |
शीत.आतपेषु लीनायाः कृताया* इव शैलतः ॥३।६८।१८॥
zIta.AtapeSu lInAyA: kRtAyA* iva zailata: ||3|68|18||
सा बभूव_अभ्र.मालायाः समासम् स्तम्भित.आकृतिः ।
sA babhUva_abhra.mAlAyA: samAsam stambhita.AkRti: |
कृष्ण.ऊर्ध्वग.ऊर्ध्व.केशी च खम् आहर्तुम् इव_उद्गता ॥३।६८।१९॥
kRSNa.Urdhvaga.Urdhva.kezI ca kham Ahartum iva_udgatA ||3|68|19||
आलोक्य ताम् पवन.जर्जरित.अङ्गक.त्वक्=
Alokya tAm pavana.jarjarita.aGgaka.tvak=
चीर.अङ्गण.कृति..रणत्..पवन.अवधूतैः ।
cIra.aGgaNa.kRti..raNat..pavana.avadhUtai: |
ऊर्ध्व.स्थ.मूर्धजतमः पटलैर्
Urdhva.stha.mUrdhajatama: paTalai:
दधानाम् तार.ओघ.मौक्तिकम् अजः सम्.उपाजगाम ॥३।६८।२०॥
dadhAnAm tAra.ogha.mauktikam aja: sam.upAjagAma ||3|68|20||
॥
KARKATÎ VISHÛCHIKÂ
:
THE OGRESS OF THE PLAGUE
after so much philosophizing,
Vasishtha
thinks it is time for a story, and begins to tell this Tale
:
VASISHTHA said—
अत्र_एव_उदाहरन्ति_इमम् इतिहासम् पुरातनम् ।
atra_eva_udAharanti_imam itihAsam purAtanam |
राक्षस्य_उक्तम् महा.प्रश्न.जालम् आवलित.अखिलम् ॥३।६८।१॥
rAkSasya_uktam mahA.prazna.jAlam Avalita.akhilam ||3|68|1||
.
Of what we talked.about in this connection
they tell
a Tale from olden times
that speaks of a Râkshasii.Ogress
who knows a net of riddles of great complexity
.
atra.here eva.indeed\only udAharan.xx.ti imam.this.there itihAsa.legend/history.m purAtana.ancient.m |
rAkSasya uktam told of a Demon's
mahA.prazna.jAlam – great net of questions – A - valita.akhila.entire/whole.m
.
*vlm.p.1. vasiShTha said:—Hear me relate to you, rAma, an old story bearing upon this subject and relating to a difficult question that was resolved by a rakshasi (female demon).
*ABComm. ... rAkSasyA: ...
##R - *hR - #AhR - #udAhR - *udAharaNa.m - the act of relating, saying, declaring, declaration • referring a general rule to a special case, an example, illustration kAz • (in logic) the example, instance (constituting the third member in a fivefold syllogism) • exaggeration - udAharaNIya, udAhArya - to be quoted as example, to be referred (as a general rule to a special case) - udAharin - relating, saying, calling.
##*purA - *purAtana *purAtanI - existing from of old, former, ancient, tasmin in the times of old; m.- pl. the ancients.
##*valita – turned, bent, n. impers.; accompanied by, joined with (---).
अस्ति कज्जल.पङ्क.अद्रेर् इव_उग्रा शाल.भञ्जिका ।
asti kajjala.paGka.adre:_iva_ugrA zAla.bhaJjikA |
हिम.अद्रेर् उत्तरे पार्श्वे कर्कटी नाम राक्षसी ॥३।६८।२॥
hima.adre:_uttare pArzve karkaTI nAma rAkSasI ||3|68|2||
.
She
looks like a muddy mountain cloud
:
an Ogress
as fierce as any temple demon
.
On the highest of the Snowy Mountain peaks she sits
:
Karkatii.Crab
is her name
:
There asti.is/exists kajjala.cloud/ink/lampblack.paGka.adri.mountain-e: iva.like/as.if ugra.ugly/ogrish/fierceA zAlabhaJjikA.wood.statue/whore himAdri.snowy.mountain.e: uttara.e pArzve – on the mountain hite - Karkatii.Crab nAma.namely/by.name rAkSasI.Demoness
.
*vlm.p.2 There lived on the north of Himalaya a heinous rakshasi named Karkati, a crooked crab, who was as dark as ink and as stalwart as a rock, with limbs strong enough to split the sturdy oak.
विषूचिका.अभिधाना च नाम्ना.अप्य्_अन्याय.बाधिका ।
viSUcikA.abhidhAnA ca nAmnA.api_anyAya.bAdhikA |
विन्ध्या.अटवी_इव देहेन शुष्का कार्श्यम् उपागता ॥३।६८।३॥
vindhyA.aTavI_iva dehena zuSkA kArzyam upAgatA ||3|68|3||
.
she has another name also
:
Vishuuchikâ the Plague
!
and
she is terribly afflicted, her body stooped
—like *Vindhya taking his bow—
for
she is all dry skin and skinny knobs of bone
.
viSUcikA.Vishuuchikâ.the.plague.abhidhAna.expressing/defining.A ca.and.too -
nAmnA.by.name.api.altho/even – a-non/without.nyAya.xx-bAdhikA.xx-
vindhyA.xx-aTavI.xx- iva.like/as.if - by/with deha.body-ena
zuSkA.xx- kArzya.xx-m upAgatA.xx-
.
*vlm.p.3 She was also known as Vishuchika or Choleric Pain, by which she was ever afflicted, and which had reduced her frame like that of Vindhya Hill which was pushed down (by the curse of Agastya).
#vindhya - a low range of hills separating Hindustan proper from the Dekhan • the personified Vindhya, jealous of Himâlaya, demanded that the sun should revolve round him in the same way as about Meru, which the sun declined to do • Vindhya then began to elevate himself that he might bar the progress of both sun and moon: the Gods were alarmed, and asked the aid of the sage Agastya, who approached Vindhya and requested that by bending down he would afford him an easy passage to the South country, begging at the same time that he would retain a low position till his return - this he promised to do, but Agastya never returned, and the Vindhya range consequently never attained the elevation of the Himâlaya. +
महाबल.अग्नि-नयना रोदोरन्ध्र.अर्ध.पूरणी ।
mahAbala.agni-nayanA rodorandhra.ardha.pUraNI |
नील.अम्बर.धरा कृष्णा देह.बद्धा_इव यामिनी ॥३।६८।४॥
nIla.ambara.dharA kRSNA deha.baddhA_iva yAminI ||3|68|4||
.
she has
fire in her eyes
:
she fills half the space between
Heaven & Earth
&
she wears nothing but the dark sky
for
she's bound in a body black as night
.
mahAbala.xx.agni.xx.nayana.xx.A rodorandhra.xx.ardha.xx.pUraNa.xx.I nIla.xx.ambara.sky.m.dhara.xx.A kRSNa.xx.A deha.gross.body.baddha.xx.A iva.like/as.if yAmi.xx.nI x
.
*vlm.p.4 Her eyeballs were blazing like fires. Her stature reaching half way to the sky. She was covered by a blue garment, like the shade of night wrapping the atmosphere.
नीहार.वसनच्*छन्ना मेदुर.अभ्र.शिरःपटा ।
nIhAra.vasanat*channA medura.abhra.zira:paTA |
लंब.अभ्र.बिम्ब.उल्लसिता नित्य.उत्थ.तिमिरा_ऊर्ध्वजा ॥३।६८।५॥
laMba.abhra.bimba.ullasitA nitya.uttha.timirA_Urdhva.jA ||3|68|5||
स्थिर.विद्युल्-लता-नेत्रा तमाल.तरु-जानुका ।
sthira.vidyut-latA-netrA tamAla.taru-jAnukA |
वैदूर्य.शूर्प.अग्र.नखी भस्म.नीहार.हासिनी ॥३।६८।६॥
vaidUrya.zUrpa.agra.nakhI bhasma.nIhAra.hAsinI ||3|68|6||
निर्मांस.नर.देह.ओघ.पुष्प.स्रग्-धाम.भूषिता ।
nirmAMsa.nara.deha.ogha.puSpa.srak-dhAma.bhUSitA |
सर्व.अङ्ग.उदात्त.सम्प्रोत.शव.माला-विराजिता ॥३।६८।७॥
sarva.aGga.udAtta.samprota.zava.mAlA-virAjitA ||3|68|7||
.
The foggy dew gives her a gown, she wears a cloud about her hair
:
her bulbous breasts dangle like mangoes
as she towers over the darkness,
with eyes fiery as lightning bolts
&
knees like a Tamâla.tree's
&
five-inch fingernails
.
she has a laugh that shrieks like a snowsquall
.
her floral bouquet
is a chain of barren human bones bound together
:
a garland of glistening skeletons
bedecks her limbs
.
nIhAra.vasana.channa.A medura.~*abhra.raincloud.zira.head:paTa.A laMba.~*abhra.raincloud.bimba.ullasita.A nityam.ever/always.uttha.timira.A Urdhva.ja.born.A sthira.vidyut.latA.vine/creeper.netra.A tamAla.taru.jAnuka.A vaidUrya.zUrpa.agra.nakhi.I bhasma.nIhAra.hAsi.laughing.nI nirmAMsa.meatless.nara.human.deha.gross.body.ogha.flood\many.puSpa.flower/blossom.srak.dhAma.house/domain.bhUSita.ornamented.A sarva.all/every.aGga.body.udAtta.samprota.strung.together.zava.corpse.mAlA.garland.virAjita.illuminated/displayed\eminent.A
.
*vlm.p.5 A white cloak covered her head like a cloud fragment. The long erect hairs of her head stood like a dark cloud on her crest.
*vlm.p.6 Her eyes flashed like lightning, and her sharp hooked nails glistened like sapphires. Her legs were as long as tamara trees, and her loud laughter was like a burst of frost.
*vlm.p.7 A string of dried bones decorated her body like a wreath of flowers. Traces of dead bodies adorned every part of her body.
*vlm..68.5_A white mantle formed the covering of her head, like the fragment of a cloud; and the long erect hairs of her head, stood like a sable cloud on her crest.
*vlm.6_Her eyes flashed as lightnings, and her sharp hooked nails glistened as sapphires; her legs were as long as tamála trees, and her loud laughter was as a burst of frost_*The black Rákhasas were believed to have been a colony of African Negros in southern India and Ceylon_The Rakhs is Bax, and Sycorax of Shakespere_
*vlm..68.7_A string of dried bones decorated her body, like a wreath of flowers; and the relics of dead bodies, adorned every part of her body_
.VA.5 hidden in the covering of mist, cloud as here head-dress, shining moon is like a hanging mango fruit, long dark erect hairs????
.AS_ the second line says: Smiling with a face like a low lying cloud, with hair like ever present darkness - thus with completely dark hair_I am interpreting nityotthatimira as one word meaning "always risen darkness"_• In the first line, the second part should be with a head cover of thick clouds_This could mean that she was so tall that her head was in the clouds.
वेताल.आवेश.विचलत्-काल.कङ्काल.कुण्डला ।
vetAla.Aveza.vicalat-kAla.kaGkAla.kuNDalA |
अर्क.आदान.उत्क.दीर्घ.अग्र.भीम.उग्र.भुज.मण्डला ॥३।६८।८॥
arka.AdAna.utka.dIrgha.agra.bhIma.ugra.bhuja.maNDalA ||3|68|8||
.
her earrings rattle with Zombie bones, dead dancing Vetâlas
.
her ornamented arms
are raised above
as.if
to seize
the sun
.
vetAla.Zombie.Aveza.xx.vicalat.xx.kAla.xx.kaGkAla.xx.kuNDala.A + arka.sun/star
.AdAna.xx.utka.xx.dIrgha.xx.agra.xx.bhIma.xx.ugra.ugly/ogrish/fierce.bhuja.arms.maNDala.sphere/domnain.A
.
*vlm.p.8 She frolicked in the company of vetala ghosts, with human skulls hanging down her ears like earrings. When she stretched out her arms she looked like she was going to pluck the sun from his sphere.
तस्या* विपुल.कायत्वाद् दुर्लभत्वान्_निज.अन्धसः ।
tasyA* vipula.kAyatvAt_dur.labhatvAt_nija.andhasa: |
अतृप्तो ऽर्णव.लेखाया* इव_अभूज् जाठरो ऽनलः ॥३।६८।९॥
atRpta:_arNava.lekhAyA* iva_abhUt_jAThara:_anala: ||3|68|9||
.
her body is SO BIG
she finds it a chore to get her food
.
her belly's always burning
like the Wâdawa, the submarine fire that eats the sea
.
tasyA:.@her vipula.extensive/huge.kAya.embodiment/body.-tva.condition/-ity.At
durlabha.xx.tva.condition/-ity.At nija.natural/inborn.andhas.xx.a:
atRpta.xx.: arNava.lekhA.xx.yA: iva.like/as.if abhUt.xx jAThara.xx: anala: x
.
*vlm.p.9 Her huge body lacked its necessary food, causing her stomach fire to blaze like an undersea flame that the waters of the deep are unable to quench.
*vlm.9_Her huge body being in want of its necessary aliment, caused her culinary fire to blaze like the submarine flame, which the waters of the deep are unable to quench_
#vADava, #vADaba, #baDavA, #baDabA, *Wâdawa - submarine fire •-• Oceanographers speak.of two sorts of luminescence in seawater: algae that blink their light (thought to be a means of frightening predators) and gathered bacteria that glow constantly, for many days. Phenomena of the latter sort are well-known in the Indian Ocean near Somalia. Perhaps this is the origin of this metaphor, which appears frequently in yv/FM. Somehow the doctors take the word to mean "coming from a mare (as milk)"_suSr.
न कदाचन सा तृप्तिम् उपयाता महोदरी ।
na kadAcana sA tRptim upayAtA mahodarI |
वडव.अनल.जिह्वा_इव चिन्तयाम्.आस च_एकदा ॥३।६८।१०॥
vaDava.anala.jihvA_iva cintayAm.Asa ca_ekadA ||3|68|10||
.
not for a moment did that big belly get satisfaction
for
her tongue was like an ocean fire
.
but then one day she had this thought
:
na kadAcana - not anyhow = sA tRptim upayAtA - she to satisfaction come =
mahodarI vaDava.anala.jihvA_iva cintayAm.Asa ca_ekadA x
.
*vlm.p.10 Nothing could ever satisfy the insatiable hunger of this big bellied monster, or satisfy her licking tongue that was always stretched out like a flame of fire.
VISHUUCHIKAA the Plague–
जंबू-द्वीप.गतान् सर्वान् निगिरामि जनान् यदि ।
jaMbU-dvIpa.gatAn sarvAn nigirAmi janAn yadi |
अनारतम् अनुश्वासम् जल.राशिम् इव_अर्णव: ॥३।६८।११॥
anAratam anuzvAsam jala.rAzim iva_arNava: ||3|68|11||
.
If
I could eat all the people who come here to WoodApple.Land
I'd be like undersea fire feeding.upon the ocean-waves
.
jaMbUdvIpa.WoodApple.Land.gata.gone.An sarva.all/every.An nigirAmi.I.swallow/devour jana.person.An yadi.if anAratam.constantly anuzvAsa.hissing/sighing.m jala.water.rAzi.xx.m iva.like/as.if arNava.waves/sea:
.
*vlm.p.11 She thought to herself, "O, if just once I could to the land of Asia (Jambudwipa), I would devour all its men in one swoop and feast on them continually like an undersea fire upon the waters.
मेघेन मृग.तृष्णा_इव तन् मे क्षुद् उपशाम्यति ।
meghena mRga.tRSNA_iva tat_me kSut_upazAmyati |
अविरुद्धा_एव सा युक्तिर् यया_अपदि हि जीव्यते ॥३।६८।१२॥
aviruddhA_eva sA yukti:_yayA_apadi hi jIvyate ||3|68|12||
.
a rain-cloud puts an end to a mirage
:
so too
my hunger would be filled
.
that would be the right recourse for me
:
I'd live unpleasantly,
but
I'd live
!
*vlm.p. As clouds cool burning sands by their rain, so will I allay the burning fire of my hunger there. It is settled as the best plan to support my life at this critical moment."
मन्त्र.ओषध.तपोदान.देव.पूज.आदि-रक्षितम् ।
mantra.oSadha.tapodAna.deva.pUja.Adi-rakSitam |
समम् एव जनम् सर्वम् निर्बाधम् कः प्रबाधते ॥३।६८।१३॥
samam eva janam sarvam nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate ||3|68|13||
.
but some of these travelers are protected
by mantras
and herbs
and fierce austerities before their Gods
.
who could
(and how would she)
trouble an untroubled people
?
mantra.oSadha.tapodAna.deva.pUja.Adi-rakSita.m samam eva janam sarvam
nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate
.
*vlm.p.13. "All men are well guarded by their mantras, medicines, austerities, devotions and charities from all evils of the world. Therefore it is impossible for anybody to destroy the indestructible devotee.
*sv.3.68.13 However, since the people of Jambudvipa are pious, charitable, devoted to god, and endowed with a knowledge of herbs, it is inappropriate to harass these peace-loving people_
*vlm..68.13_All men are well guarded by means of their mantras, medicines, austerities, devotions and charities, from all evils of the world; whence it is impossible for any body to destroy the indestructible devotee_
तपः करोमि परमम् अखिन्नेन_एव चेतसा ।
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnena_eva cetasA |
तपस_एव महा.उग्रेण यद् दुरापम् तद् आप्यते ॥३।६८।१४॥
tapasa_eva mahA.ugreNa yat_durApam tat_Apyate ||3|68|14||
.
I
too
will do some practice of extreme Austerity as a firm commitment,
for
that's what gets what is, without it, hard.to.get
.
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnena_eva cetasA
tapasa_eva mahA.ugreNa yat_durApam tat_Apyate
.
*vlm.p.14 I will perform the most rigorous austerities with an unflinching heart and mind, because it is by intensity of effort that we may gain what is otherwise hard to be had."
VASISHTHA said—
इति संचिन्त्य सा सर्व.जन्तु-जात.जिघांसया ।
iti saMcintya sA sarva.jantu-jAta.jighAMsayA |
तपो-ऽर्थम् अथ सस्मार पर्वतम् भूत.दुर्गमम् ॥३।६८।१५॥
tapo-artham atha sasmAra parvatam bhUta.durgamam ||3|68|15||
.
so she mused
&
she grew an appetite that craved the blood
of everyone
.
then
she had a memory
:
a mountain,
remote from everyone,
it was a place where she could practice tapas,
seeking Food*
as the reward for her austerities
.
iti saMcintya sA sarva.jantu-jAta.jighAMsayA taportham atha sasmAra
parvatam bhUta.durgamam
.
*vlm.p.15 Having thought so, she went to an inaccessible mountain for the purpose of destroying all animal beings.
*jd. rAkShasa.Ogres are devourers of all flesh; they'll eat anything, even their own.
आरुरोह च तच्*छृङ्गम् स्थिर.विद्युद्-विलोचना ।
Aruroha ca tat_zRGgam sthira.vidyut-vilocanA |
हस्त-पाद.आदि-मद्.देहा श्यामला_इव_अभ्र.मण्डली ॥३।६८।१६॥
hasta-pAda.Adi-mat.dehA zyAmalA_iva_abhra.maNDalI ||3|68|16||
तत्र गत्वा_अथ सा स्नात्वा तपः कर्तुम् कृत.स्थितिः ।
tatra gatvA_atha sA snAtvA tapa: kartum kRta.sthiti: |
अतिष्ठद्_एक.पादेन चन्द्र.अर्क.अस्पन्द.लोचना ॥३।६८।१७॥
atiSThat_eka.pAdena candra.arka.aspanda.locanA ||3|68|17||
.
&
so
she
climbed the mountain she remembered,
she
with her unblinking flashing eyes,
and a body
from hands to feet black as a clustered thundercloud
.
.and having got there, having made holy ablutions, taking a place to stand,
she
made
tapas
:
she
stood
balanced
on
one
foot,
and her eyes shone brightly like a Sun and FullMoon
.
Aruroha ca tat_zRGgam sthira.vidyut-vilocanA hasta-pAda.Adi-mat.dehA zyAmalA_iva_abhra.maNDalI tatra gatvA_atha sA snAtvA tapa: kartum kRta.sthiti:
atiSThat_eka.pAdena candra.arka.aspanda.locanA x
.
*vlm.p.16 She climbed to the top of the mountain, scrambling over it with her hands and feet, and stood on it with her body looking a cloud and her eyeballs flashing like lightning.
*vlm.p.17 Having reached the summit, she made her ablution and then sat in her tapas. Her steadfast eyeballs resembled the two orbs of the sun and moon fixed on one object.
क्रमेण दिवसाः पक्षस् तस्या* मासर्तवो ययुः ।
krameNa divasA: pakSa:_tasyA* mAsartava:_yayu: |
शीत.आतपेषु लीनायाः कृताया* इव शैलतः ॥३।६८।१८॥
zIta.AtapeSu lInAyA: kRtAyA* iva zailata: ||3|68|18||
.
now,
in the course
of
days
and nights
and fortnights
and months passing.by
—in parade—
that mountainous body
was overwhelmed
with winter cold
&
summer heat
.
krameNa divasA: pakSa: tasyA* mAsartava:_yayu: zIta.AtapeSu lInAyA: kRtAyA* iva zailata:
.
*vlm.p.18 She passed many a day and month there, and saw the course of many a season and year. She exposed her huge body to the rigor of heat and cold, like the hill itself (on which she sat).
सा बभूव_अभ्र.मालायाः समासम् स्तम्भित.आकृतिः ।
sA babhUva_abhra.mAlAyA: samAsam stambhita.AkRti: |
कृष्ण.ऊर्ध्वग.ऊर्ध्व.केशी च खम् आहर्तुम् इव_उद्गता ॥३।६८।१९॥
kRSNa.Urdhvaga.Urdhva.kezI ca kham Ahartum iva_udgatA ||3|68|19||
.
a chain of clouds hung round her neck
_
she stood on one leg
she
stood
stiff
with stiff upgoing hair
and she seemed to be reaching for the sky
!
sA babhUva_abhra.mAlAyA: samAsam stambhita.AkRti: kRSNa.Urdhvaga.Urdhva.kezI ca
kham Ahartum iva_udgatA
.
*vlm.p.19 She with her huge black body remained unmoved as a thick dark cloud on the mountain top. Her jet black hairs stood up as if to touch the sky.
आलोक्य ताम् पवन.जर्जरित.अङ्गक.त्वक्=
Alokya tAm pavana.jarjarita.aGgaka.tvak=
चीर.अङ्गण.कृति-रणत्-पवन.अवधूतैः ।
cIra.aGgaNa.kRti-raNat-pavana.avadhUtai: |
ऊर्ध्व.स्थ.मूर्धजतमः पटलैर्
Urdhva.stha.mUrdhajatama: paTalai:
दधानाम् तार.ओघ.मौक्तिकम् अजः सम्.उपाजगाम ॥३।६८।२०॥
dadhAnAm tAra.ogha.mauktikam aja: sam.upAjagAma ||3|68|20||
.
one day
he saw her standing there
in her dark wind-withered old woman's skin,
hair upstanding in the blasting wind,
under a roof of pearl-clustered stars
&
so
the unborn Brahmâ the Immense
drew.near to her
.
Alokya.having.seen tAm.that.her pavana.jarjarita.aGgaka.tvak=cIra.aGgaNa.kRti-raNat-pavana.avadhUtai: |
Urdhva.above.stha.standing/situate.mUrdhajatama: paTalai: dadhAnAm tAra.star.ogha.flood\many.mauktika.m aja.unborn: samupAjagAma.drew.near
.
*vlm.p. Seeing her body beaten by the blasts and covered with nothing but her ragged skin, and her hairs standing up to their end, tossed to and fro by the raging winds, while the twinkling of her eyelids shed a whitish glare on her dark frame, God brahma appeared before her.
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atra.here eva.indeed\only udaaharan.ti imam.this.there itihAsa.legend/history.m purAtana.ancient.m | raakSa.sya ukta.m told of a Demon's
mahA.prazna.jAlam – great net of questions – A * valita.akhila.entire/whole.m
.
*vlm.p.1. vasiShTha said:—Hear me relate to you, rAma, an old story bearing upon this subject and relating to a difficult question that was resolved by a rakshasi (female demon).
*ABComm. ... rAkSasyA: ...
अस्ति कज्जल.पङ्क.अद्रेर् इव_उग्रा शाल.भञ्जिका ।
asti kajjala.paGka.adre:_iva_ugrA zAla.bhaJjikA |
हिम.अद्रेर् उत्तरे पार्श्वे कर्कटी नाम राक्षसी ॥३।६८।२॥
hima.adre:_uttare pArzve karkaTI nAma rAkSasI ||3|68|2||
.
She
looks like a muddy mountain cloud
:
an Ogress
as fierce as any temple demon
.
On the highest of the Snowy Mountain peaks she sits
:
Karkatii.Crab
is her name
:
There asti.is/exists kajjala.cloud/ink/lampblack.paGka.adri.mountain*e: iva.like/as.if ugra.ugly/ogrish/fierceA zAlabhaJjikA.wood.statue/whore himAdri.snowy.mountain.e: uttara.e pArzve – on the mountain hite * Karkatii.Crab nAma.namely/by.name rAkSasI.Demoness
.
*vlm.p.2 There lived on the north of Himalaya a heinous rakshasi named Karkati, a crooked crab, who was as dark as ink and as stalwart as a rock, with limbs strong enough to split the sturdy oak.
विषूचिका.अभिधाना च नाम्ना.अप्य्_अन्याय.बाधिका ।
viSUcikA.abhidhAnA ca nAmnA.api_anyAya.bAdhikA |
विन्ध्या.अटवी_इव देहेन शुष्का कार्श्यम् उपागता ॥३।६८।३॥
vindhyA.aTavI_iva dehena zuSkA kArzyam upAgatA ||3|68|3||
.
she has another name also
:
Vishuuchikâ the Plague
!
and
she is terribly afflicted, her body stooped
—like *Vindhya taking his bow—
for
she is all dry skin and skinny knobs of bone
.
viSUcikA.Vishuuchikâ.the.plague.abhidhAna.expressing/defining.A ca.and.too *
nAmnA.by.name.api.altho/even – a*non/without.nyAya.xx*bAdhikA.xx*
vindhyA.xx*aTavI.xx* iva.like/as.if * by/with deha.body*ena
zuSkA.xx* kArzya.xx*m upAgatA.xx*
.
*vlm.p.3 She was also known as Vishuchika or Choleric Pain, by which she was ever afflicted, and which had reduced her frame like that of Vindhya Hill which was pushed down (by the curse of Agastya).
#vindhya * a low range of hills separating Hindustan proper from the Dekhan • the personified Vindhya, jealous of Himâlaya, demanded that the sun should revolve round him in the same way as about Meru, which the sun declined to do • Vindhya then began to elevate himself that he might bar the progress of both sun and moon: the Gods were alarmed, and asked the aid of the sage Agastya, who approached Vindhya and requested that by bending down he would afford him an easy passage to the South country, begging at the same time that he would retain a low position till his return * this he promised to do, but Agastya never returned, and the Vindhya range consequently never attained the elevation of the Himâlaya. +
महाबल.अग्नि*नयना रोदोरन्ध्र.अर्ध.पूरणी ।
mahAbala.agni*nayanA rodorandhra.ardha.pUraNI |
नील.अम्बर.धरा कृष्णा देह.बद्धा_इव यामिनी ॥३।६८।४॥
nIla.ambara.dharA kRSNA deha.baddhA_iva yAminI ||3|68|4||
.
she has
fire in her eyes
:
she fills half the space between
Heaven & Earth
&
she wears nothing but the dark sky
for
she's bound in a body black as night
.
mahAbala.agni.nayana.A rodorandhra.ardha.pUraNa.I nIla.ambara.sky.m.dhara.A kRSNa.A deha.gross.body.baddha.A iva.like/as.if yAmi.nI x
.
*vlm.p.4 Her eyeballs were blazing like fires. Her stature reaching half way to the sky. She was covered by a blue garment, like the shade of night wrapping the atmosphere.
नीहार.वसनच्*छन्ना मेदुर.अभ्र.शिरःपटा ।
nIhAra.vasanat*channA medura.abhra.zira:paTA |
लंब.अभ्र.बिम्ब.उल्लसिता नित्य.उत्थ.तिमिरा_ऊर्ध्वजा ॥३।६८।५॥
laMba.abhra.bimba.ullasitA nitya.uttha.timirA_Urdhva.jA ||3|68|5||
स्थिर.विद्युल्*लता*नेत्रा तमाल.तरु*जानुका ।
sthira.vidyut*latA*netrA tamAla.taru*jAnukA |
वैदूर्य.शूर्प.अग्र.नखी भस्म.नीहार.हासिनी ॥३।६८।६॥
vaidUrya.zUrpa.agra.nakhI bhasma.nIhAra.hAsinI ||3|68|6||
निर्मांस.नर.देह.ओघ.पुष्प.स्रग्*धाम.भूषिता ।
nirmAMsa.nara.deha.ogha.puSpa.srak*dhAma.bhUSitA |
सर्व.अङ्ग.उदात्त.सम्प्रोत.शव.माला*विराजिता ॥३।६८।७॥
sarva.aGga.udAtta.samprota.zava.mAlA*virAjitA ||3|68|7||
.
The foggy dew gives her a gown, she wears a cloud about her hair
:
her bulbous breasts dangle like mangoes
as she towers over the darkness,
with eyes fiery as lightning bolts
&
knees like a Tamâla.tree's
&
five*inch fingernails
.
she has a laugh that shrieks like a snowsquall
.
her floral bouquet
is a chain of barren human bones bound together
:
a garland of glistening skeletons
bedecks her limbs
.
nIhAra.vasana.channa.A medura.**abhra.raincloud.zira.head:paTa.A laMba.**abhra.raincloud.bimba.ullasita.A nityam.ever/always.uttha.timira.A Urdhva.ja.born.A sthira.vidyut.latA.vine/creeper.netra.A tamAla.taru.jAnuka.A vaidUrya.zUrpa.agra.nakhi.I bhasma.nIhAra.hAsi.laughing.nI nirmAMsa.meatless.nara.human.deha.gross.body.ogha.flood\many.puSpa.flower/blossom.srak.dhAma.house/domain.bhUSita.ornamented.A sarva.all/every.aGga.body.udAtta.samprota.strung.together.zava.corpse.mAlA.garland.virAjita.illuminated/displayed\eminent.A
.
*vlm.p.5 A white cloak covered her head like a cloud fragment. The long erect hairs of her head stood like a dark cloud on her crest.
*vlm.p.6 Her eyes flashed like lightning, and her sharp hooked nails glistened like sapphires. Her legs were as long as tamara trees, and her loud laughter was like a burst of frost.
*vlm.p.7 A string of dried bones decorated her body like a wreath of flowers. Traces of dead bodies adorned every part of her body.
*vlm..68.5_A white mantle formed the covering of her head, like the fragment of a cloud; and the long erect hairs of her head, stood like a sable cloud on her crest.
*vlm.6_Her eyes flashed as lightnings, and her sharp hooked nails glistened as sapphires; her legs were as long as tamála trees, and her loud laughter was as a burst of frost_*The black Rákhasas were believed to have been a colony of African Negros in southern India and Ceylon_The Rakhs is Bax, and Sycorax of Shakespere_
*vlm..68.7_A string of dried bones decorated her body, like a wreath of flowers; and the relics of dead bodies, adorned every part of her body_
.VA.5 hidden in the covering of mist, cloud as here head*dress, shining moon is like a hanging mango fruit, long dark erect hairs????
.AS_ the second line says: Smiling with a face like a low lying cloud, with hair like ever present darkness * thus with completely dark hair_I am interpreting nityotthatimira as one word meaning "always risen darkness"_• In the first line, the second part should be with a head cover of thick clouds_This could mean that she was so tall that her head was in the clouds.
वेताल.आवेश.विचलत्*काल.कङ्काल.कुण्डला ।
vetAla.Aveza.vicalat*kAla.kaGkAla.kuNDalA |
अर्क.आदान.उत्क.दीर्घ.अग्र.भीम.उग्र.भुज.मण्डला ॥३।६८।८॥
arka.AdAna.utka.dIrgha.agra.bhIma.ugra.bhuja.maNDalA ||3|68|8||
.
her earrings rattle with Zombie bones, dead dancing Vetâlas
.
her ornamented arms
are raised above
as.if
to seize
the sun
.
vetAla.Zombie.Aveza.vicalat.kAla.kaGkAla.kuNDala.A + arka.sun/star
.AdAna.utka.dIrgha.agra.bhIma.ugra.ugly/ogrish/fierce.bhuja.arms.maNDala.sphere/domnain.A
.
*vlm.p.8 She frolicked in the company of vetala ghosts, with human skulls hanging down her ears like earrings. When she stretched out her arms she looked like she was going to pluck the sun from his sphere.
तस्या* विपुल.कायत्वाद् दुर्लभत्वान्_निज.अन्धसः ।
tasyA* vipula.kAyatvAt_dur.labhatvAt_nija.andhasa: |
अतृप्तो ऽर्णव.लेखाया* इव_अभूज् जाठरो ऽनलः ॥३।६८।९॥
atRpta:_arNava.lekhAyA* iva_abhUt_jAThara:_anala: ||3|68|9||
.
her body is SO BIG
she finds it a chore to get her food
.
her belly's always burning
like the Wâdawa, the submarine fire that eats the sea
.
tasyA:.@her vipula.extensive/huge.kAya.embodiment/body.*tva.condition/*ity.At
durlabha.tva.condition/*ity.At nija.natural/inborn.andhas.a:
atRpta.: arNava.lekhA.yA: iva.like/as.if abhUt.xx jAThara.xx: anala: x
.
*vlm.p.9 Her huge body lacked its necessary food, causing her stomach fire to blaze like an undersea flame that the waters of the deep are unable to quench.
*vlm.9_Her huge body being in want of its necessary aliment, caused her culinary fire to blaze like the submarine flame, which the waters of the deep are unable to quench_
#vADava, #vADaba, #baDavA, #baDabA, *Wâdawa * submarine fire •*• Oceanographers speak.of two sorts of luminescence in seawater: algae that blink their light (thought to be a means of frightening predators) and gathered bacteria that glow constantly, for many days. Phenomena of the latter sort are well*known in the Indian Ocean near Somalia. Perhaps this is the origin of this metaphor, which appears frequently in yv/FM. Somehow the doctors take the word to mean "coming from a mare (as milk)"_suSr.
न कदाचन सा तृप्तिम् उपयाता महोदरी ।
na kadAcana sA tRptim upayAtA mahodarI |
वडव.अनल.जिह्वा_इव चिन्तयाम्.आस च_एकदा ॥३।६८।१०॥
vaDava.anala.jihvA_iva cintayAm.Asa ca_ekadA ||3|68|10||
.
not for a moment did that big belly get satisfaction
for
her tongue was like an ocean fire
.
but then one day she had this thought
:
na kadAcana * not anyhow = sA tRptim upayAtA * she to satisfaction come =
mahodarI vaDava.anala.jihvA_iva cintayAm.Asa ca_ekadA x
.
*vlm.p.10 Nothing could ever satisfy the insatiable hunger of this big bellied monster, or satisfy her licking tongue that was always stretched out like a flame of fire.
VISHUUCHIKAA the Plague–
जंबू*द्वीप.गतान् सर्वान् निगिरामि जनान् यदि ।
jaMbU*dvIpa.gatAn sarvAn nigirAmi janAn yadi |
अनारतम् अनुश्वासम् जल.राशिम् इव_अर्णव: ॥३।६८।११॥
anAratam anuzvAsam jala.rAzim iva_arNava: ||3|68|11||
.
If
I could eat all the people who come here to WoodApple.Land
I'd be like undersea fire feeding.upon the ocean*waves
.
jaMbUdvIpa.WoodApple.Land.gata.gone.An sarva.all/every.An nigirAmi.I.swallow/devour jana.person.An yadi.if anAratam.constantly anuzvAsa.hissing/sighing.m jala.water.rAzi.m iva.like/as.if arNava.waves/sea:
.
*vlm.p.11 She thought to herself, "O, if just once I could to the land of Asia (Jambudwipa), I would devour all its men in one swoop and feast on them continually like an undersea fire upon the waters.
मेघेन मृग.तृष्णा_इव तन् मे क्षुद् उपशाम्यति ।
meghena mRga.tRSNA_iva tat_me kSut_upazAmyati |
अविरुद्धा_एव सा युक्तिर् यया_अपदि हि जीव्यते ॥३।६८।१२॥
aviruddhA_eva sA yukti:_yayA_apadi hi jIvyate ||3|68|12||
.
a rain*cloud puts an end to a mirage
:
so too
my hunger would be filled
.
that would be the right recourse for me
:
I'd live unpleasantly,
but
I'd live
!
*vlm.p. As clouds cool burning sands by their rain, so will I allay the burning fire of my hunger there. It is settled as the best plan to support my life at this critical moment."
मन्त्र.ओषध.तपोदान.देव.पूज.आदि*रक्षितम् ।
mantra.oSadha.tapodAna.deva.pUja.Adi*rakSitam |
समम् एव जनम् सर्वम् निर्बाधम् कः प्रबाधते ॥३।६८।१३॥
samam eva janam sarvam nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate ||3|68|13||
.
but some of these travelers are protected
by mantras
and herbs
and fierce austerities before their Gods
.
who could
(and how would she)
trouble an untroubled people
?
mantra.oSadha.tapodAna.deva.pUja.Adi*rakSita.m samam eva janam sarvam
nirbAdham ka: prabAdhate
.
*vlm.p.13. "All men are well guarded by their mantras, medicines, austerities, devotions and charities from all evils of the world. Therefore it is impossible for anybody to destroy the indestructible devotee.
*sv.3.68.13 However, since the people of Jambudvipa are pious, charitable, devoted to god, and endowed with a knowledge of herbs, it is inappropriate to harass these peace*loving people_
*vlm..68.13_All men are well guarded by means of their mantras, medicines, austerities, devotions and charities, from all evils of the world; whence it is impossible for any body to destroy the indestructible devotee_
तपः करोमि परमम् अखिन्नेन_एव चेतसा ।
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnena_eva cetasA |
तपस_एव महा.उग्रेण यद् दुरापम् तद् आप्यते ॥३।६८।१४॥
tapasa_eva mahA.ugreNa yat_durApam tat_Apyate ||3|68|14||
.
I
too
will do some practice of extreme Austerity as a firm commitment,
for
that's what gets what is, without it, hard.to.get
.
tapa: karomi paramam akhinnena_eva cetasA
tapasa_eva mahA.ugreNa yat_durApam tat_Apyate
.
*vlm.p.14 I will perform the most rigorous austerities with an unflinching heart and mind, because it is by intensity of effort that we may gain what is otherwise hard to be had."
VASISHTHA said—
इति संचिन्त्य सा सर्व.जन्तु*जात.जिघांसया ।
iti saMcintya sA sarva.jantu*jAta.jighAMsayA |
तपो*ऽर्थम् अथ सस्मार पर्वतम् भूत.दुर्गमम् ॥३।६८।१५॥
tapo*artham atha sasmAra parvatam bhUta.durgamam ||3|68|15||
.
so she mused
&
she grew an appetite that craved the blood
of everyone
.
then
she had a memory
:
a mountain,
remote from everyone,
it was a place where she could practice tapas,
seeking Food*
as the reward for her austerities
.
iti saMcintya sA sarva.jantu*jAta.jighAMsayA taportham atha sasmAra
parvatam bhUta.durgamam
.
*vlm.p.15 Having thought so, she went to an inaccessible mountain for the purpose of destroying all animal beings.
*jd. rAkShasa.Ogres are devourers of all flesh; they'll eat anything, even their own.
आरुरोह च तच्*छृङ्गम् स्थिर.विद्युद्*विलोचना ।
Aruroha ca tat_zRGgam sthira.vidyut*vilocanA |
हस्त*पाद.आदि*मद्.देहा श्यामला_इव_अभ्र.मण्डली ॥३।६८।१६॥
hasta*pAda.Adi*mat.dehA zyAmalA_iva_abhra.maNDalI ||3|68|16||
Aruroha ca tat_zRGgam sthira.vidyut*vilocanA hasta*pAda.Adi*mat.dehA zyAmalA_iva_abhra.maNDalI tatra gatvA_atha sA snAtvA tapa: kartum kRta.sthiti:
चीर.अङ्गण.कृति*रणत्*पवन.अवधूतैः ।
cIra.aGgaNa.kRti*raNat*pavana.avadhUtai: |
ऊर्ध्व.स्थ.मूर्धजतमः पटलैर्
Urdhva.stha.mUrdhajatama: paTalai:
दधानाम् तार.ओघ.मौक्तिकम् अजः सम्.उपाजगाम ॥३।६८।२०॥
dadhAnAm tAra.ogha.mauktikam aja: sam.upAjagAma ||3|68|20||
.
one day
he saw her standing there
in her dark wind*withered old woman's skin,
hair upstanding in the blasting wind,
under a roof of pearl*clustered stars
&
so
the unborn Brahmâ the Immense
drew.near to her
.
Alokya.having.seen tAm.that.her pavana.jarjarita.aGgaka.tvak=cIra.aGgaNa.kRti*raNat*pavana.avadhUtai: |
Urdhva.above.stha.standing/situate.mUrdhajatama: paTalai: dadhAnAm tAra.star.ogha.flood\many.mauktika.m aja.unborn: samupAjagAma.drew.near
.
*vlm.p. Seeing her body beaten by the blasts and covered with nothing but her ragged skin, and her hairs standing up to their end, tossed to and fro by the raging winds, while the twinkling of her eyelids shed a whitish glare on her dark frame, God brahma appeared before her.
##gam going * #Agam toward * #upAgam near * #samupAgam quite *
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VISHÛCHIKÂ the Plague–
जंबू*द्वीप.गतान् सर्वान् निगिरामि जनान् यदि ।
jaMbU*dvIpa.gatAn sarvAn nigirAmi janAn yadi |
अनारतम् अनुश्वासम् जल.राशिम् इव_अर्णव: ॥३।६८।११॥
anAratam anuzvAsam jala.rAzim iva_arNava: ||3|68|11||
.
If
I could eat all the people who come here to WoodApple.Land
I'd be like undersea fire feeding.upon the ocean*waves
.
jaMbUdvIpa.WoodApple.Land.gata.gone.An sarva.all/every.An nigirAmi.I.swallow/devour jana.person.An yadi.if anAratam.constantly anuzvAsa.hissing/sighing.m jala.water.rAzi.m iva.like/as.if arNava.waves/sea:
.
*vlm.p.11 She thought to herself, "O, if just once I could to the land of Asia (Jambudwipa), I would devour all its men in one swoop and feast on them continually like an undersea fire upon the waters.
मेघेन मृग.तृष्णा_इव तन् मे क्षुद् उपशाम्यति ।
meghena mRga.tRSNA_iva tat_me kSut_upazAmyati |
अविरुद्धा_एव सा युक्तिर् यया_अपदि हि जीव्यते ॥३।६८।१२॥
aviruddhA_eva sA yukti:_yayA_apadi hi jIvyate ||3|68|12||
.
meghena mRga.tRSNA_iva tat_me kSut_upazAmyati = aviruddhA_eva sA yukti:_yayA_apadi hi jIvyate
*sv.3.68.13 However, since the people of Jambudvipa are pious, charitable, devoted to god, and endowed with a knowledge of herbs, it is inappropriate to harass these peace*loving people.
सन्तोषः परमो लाभः सत्सङ्गः परमा गतिः।
विचारः परमं ज्ञानं शमो हि परमं सुखम्॥
Contentment is the highest gain, Good Company the highest course,
Enquiry the highest wisdom, and Peace the highest enjoyment.
-- Yoga Vasishtha