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fm3048 1.je27 War Story .z86

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Oॐm

WAR STORY

jd:

Cantos like this

could be compared

with a sports announcer

on radio

as always, the reader should reduce honorific numbers

(the exaggerated 7 years = the actual 7 seconds in LoverLand,

but I believe some Emperor's reign of 7 thousand years = 70 years

that seemed longer to his patient subjects).

he should also bear in mind that, just as a King is Equal with his country

(as Cleopatra = Egypt)

so too the King is identified with his Army.

•

as for the nature of the astra, some modern Translators try to equate them with atomic weapons. but considering that they so.far we have seen fighting mainly with catapulted rocks and war-hammers, this seems unlikely.

they are quasi.robotic weapons of which more will be said in the course of the Canto.

vasiShTha said—

प्राप्य राजा पुर: प्राप्तं सिन्धुम् उद्धुर-कन्धरम् ।

prApya rAjA pura: prAptam sindhum uddhura-kandharam |

मध्याह्न-तपनान्तेन कोपेन विततो_अभवत् ॥३।४८।१॥

madhyAhna-tapanAntena kopena vitato_'bhavat ||3|48|1

taken

the rAjA.King was taken.to the Presence of

sindhu

the broad.shouldered

his anger burned worse than a mad.dog's noonday sun

it was

vast

* sindhu is what we may call the Royal Being, the rAjA.King of sindhu.Land.

~AS. Seeing sindhu reach the city and look around with raised head, the King (vidUratha) was overcome with great fury surpassing the heat of the mid day Sun. ... "obtained (or found- prAptaM) in front (puraH)". Having found sindhu in front with raised head, the King (vidUratha) was overcome with great fury surpassing the heat of the mid day Sun. Thus the King was angry to see the proud raised head of sindhu in front.
~vlm.1. vasiShTha said:—King Viduratha, finding the high shouldered king of Sindhu before him, was enraged like the raging sun, in his midday fury.

धनुर् आस्फालयाम्.आस चिर-आरावित-दिङ्-मुखम् ।

dhanur AsphAlayAm.Asa cira-ArAvita-diG-mukham |

कल्पान्त-पवन-आस्फोट इव मेरु-गिरेस् तटम् ॥२॥

kalpAnta-pavana-AsphoTa iva meru-gires taTam ||2

the twang & whoosh of his Archers

resounds thru.out the Quarters of the scene

it's as.if

Doomsday fire sparked on the slopes of Mount.meru

विससर्ज_ऊर्जितो राजा प्रलय-अर्क: करान् इव । तूणीर-रजनी-बद्धा: शिली-मुख-परम्परा: ॥३॥

visasarja_Urjito rAjA pralaya-arka: karAn iva | tUNIra-rajanI-baddhA: zilI-mukha-paramparA: ||3

the King has loosed his arrow-case,

that holds his arrow.bolts like bees

snuggled in a lotus, waiting for the dawn

draws and shoots his StoneHeads one.by.one

each is a radiant beam of Doomsday sun

~vlm.3 He drew his arrows from his dark quiver and shot them like the rays of the sun rising from the womb of night.

~AS. The analogy is indeed rather twisted. tUNir-rajanI compares his arrow case with night. zilImukha has two meanings, arrows or bees. The flying swarm of arrows is being compared to swarm of bees trapped in night. The standard poetic convention is that a bee gets trapped in some lotuses which close at night and comes out when the Sun arises.

एक एव विनिर्याति गुणात् तस्य शिली-मुख: । सहस्रम् भवति व्योम्नि गच्छन् पतति लक्षशः॥४॥

eka eva viniryAti guNAt tasya zilI-mukha: | sahasram bhavati vyomni gacchan patati lakSaza: ||4

next

is one more powerful than that,

the StoneMouth

when only one goes.forth,

the power of a StoneMouth is more than a thousand missiles in the sky

so they fall in tens of thousands

~vlm.4 Each arrow flung from the bowstring flew like thousands in the air, and fell like millions on the ground.

सिन्धोर्_अपि तथा_एव_आसीच्_छक्तिर्_लाघवम्_एव च । वरेण वरदस्य_एवम् विष्णोर्_धानुष्-कता तयो: ॥५॥

sindho:_api tathA_eva_AsIt_zakti:_lAghavam eva ca | vareNa varadasya_evam viSNo:_dhAnuS-katA tayo: ||5

the rAjA sindhu too has powers granted as a boon,

for both Kings have been favored by viShNu

*jd. both been granted boons by viShNu

in the form of astra*weapons

* not atomic, but robotic weapons

launched by a mantra key.

~vlm.... was equally expert in his archery, as both of these archers owed their skill with bows to the favor of viSNu.

मुसला नाम ते बाणा मुसलाकृतयोस्म्बरम् ।

musalA nAma te bANA musala-AkRtayo_'mbaram |

छादयामासुरुन्नादा: कल्पान्ताशनयो यथा ॥६॥

chAdayAm.Asur_unnAdA: kalpAnta-Azanayo yathA||6||

next come the musala.Pounders a-k-a Super-Pestles, flying clubs

they blanket the sky, banging like thunderbolts on Doomsday Night

~vlm.⁶Some of these darts were called bolts which blocked the aerial passages, like door bolts do their doors, the fell down on the ground with the loud roar of thunderbolts.

रेजु: कनक-नाराच-राजयो व्योम्नि सस्वना: ।

reju: kanaka-nArAca-rAjayo vyomni sasvanA: |

रसन्त्य: कल्प-वात-आर्ता: पतन्त्य इव नारका: ॥7॥

rasantya: kalpa-vAta-ArtA: patantya iva nArakA: ||7

there was a glistering of golden-arrow.rows.

the sky was filled with sound

the roaring miseries of Doomsday Wind, full of hellfire

vlm 7 Others decorated with gold flew hissing as if blown by the winds, and after shining like stars in the sky, fell like blazing meteors on the ground.

विदूरथाच् छर-आसारा अजस्रम् अभिनिर्ययु: ।

vidUrathAc chara-AsArA ajasram abhiniryayu: |

अब्धेर् इव पयः-पूरा: सूर्याद् इव मरीचयः॥8॥

abdher iva paya:-pUrA: sUryAd iva marIcaya: ||8

but now vidUratha rAjA lets.loose a running flood of bolts

like ocean.water at full tide or the radiant beams of the morning sun

vlm 8 Showers of shafts poured forth constantly from the hands of Viduratha, like the ceaseless torrents of rivers, or billows of the sea, or the endless radiation of solar rays.

*jd. - vidUrathAt – From vidUratha — zara-AsArA-: – a full flood of arrows —ajasram abhiniryayu: – ontinuously was sent.forth —abdher iva paya:-pUrA: – like the sea at full flood —sUryAd iva marIcaya: – or the radiance of the sun.

प्रचण्ड-पवन-उद्धूतात् पुष्पानि इव महातरो: ।

pracaNDa-pavana-uddhUtAt puSpAni iva mahAtaro: |

अयः-पिण्डाद् इव_उत्तप्तात् ताडितात् कण-पङ्क्तय: ॥9॥

aya:-piNDAd iva_uttaptAt tADitAt kaNa-paGktaya: ||9

flowers on a great tree flash their fire

iron balls burn everywhere, huge lightning sparks

vlm 9 Shells and bullets were flying about like sparks of fire struck out of the balls of red-hot iron, and falling like flowers of forests blown away by gusts of wind.

*jd. - pracaNDa-pavana-uddhUtAt – from fierce-fire-tossing —puSpAni iva mahAtaro: – like flowers on a great tree —ayas-piNDAd iva – as from iron balls —uttaptAt – burned.up —tADitAt kaNa-paGktaya: – from lightning, the fragmented sparks.

धारा वर्ष-मुच इव सीकरा इव निर्झरात् ।

dhArA varSa-muca iva sIkarA iva nirjharAt |

तत् पुर-अग्नि-महादाहात् स्फुलिङ्गा इव भासुराः॥10॥

tat pura-agni-mahAdAhAt sphuliGgA iva bhAsurA: ||10

the arrows flew—

a cloudburst, or the splash of a cascading waterfall.

the conflagrated city sparked and sparkled, bright and terrible

*jd. - dhArA-varSamuce iva – Like a cloudburst —sIkarA iva nirjharAt – like spray from a waterfall — tat pura-agni.mahAdAhAt – from that metropolitan conflagration — sphuliGgA-: iva – like the sparks — bhAsurA: – terrible/brilliant.

vlm10 They fell like showers of rainwater, and like the rush of water-falls, and as plentifully as the sparks of fire that flew from Viduratha’s burning city.

तयोश् चटचट-आस्फोटं शृण्वत्-कोदण्डयोर् द्वयो: ।

tayoz caTacaTa-AsphoTam zRNvat-kodaNDayor dvayo: |

बल-द्वयम् अभूत् प्रेक्षामूकं शान्त इव अम्बुधि: ॥11॥

bala-dvayam abhUt prekSAmUkam zAnta iva ambudhi: ||11

when those two bent their bows there came

a chattering unison

"chata-chata"

hearing it, both fearful armies grew quiet as still waters

tayo: – From those two —

caTacaTa-AsphoTam – the chattering "chata-chata" —

zRNvat kodaNDayor dvayo: – hearing from the two bows —

bala-dvayam abhUt – the force-pair was — the two armies —

prekSAmUkam – with fright/staring faces —

zAnta iva ambudhi: – grew quiet like the waters.

< bala-dvayam senA-dvayam ||> Comm. —

vlm11 The jarring sound of their bowstrings hushed the clamor of the two armies, like a calm quiets the roaring of the raging sea.

vlm12 The course of arrows, was as the stream of Ganges (the milky path) in heaven, running towards the King of Sindhu, as the river runs to meet the sea (Sindhu).

vlm13. The shower of arrows flying from the golden bow of the king was like a flood of rain falling under the variegated rainbow in the sky.

वहन्ति स्म शरापूरा गङ्गापूरा इव_अम्बरे ।

vahanti sma zarApUrA gaGgApUrA iva_ambare |

सिन्धोर् अभिमुखं युद्धे घर्घर-आराव-रंहस: ॥12॥

sindhor abhimukham yuddhe gharghara-ArAva-raMhasa: ||12

and so the flood of arrows flows, it's like gangA come down from heaven

sindhu goes.to.war, roaring like a gurgling flash flood

~vlm. ... as the stream of Ganges (the milky path) in heaven, running towards the King of Sindhu, as the river runs to meet the sea (Sindhu).

*jd. - vahanti sma zarApUrA – The flood of arrows flowed —gaGgApUrA iva ambare – like the gangA flood in the sky —sindhor – of sindhu —abhimukham yuddhe – going-to war —gharghara-ArAva-raMhasa: – with a violent gurgling stream/warcries.

कचत् कनक-नाराच-शर.वर्षा अनारतम् ।

kacat kanaka-nArAca-zara.varSA anAratam |

वहच् छव-शव.शब्दं निर्ययुर् धनुर् अम्बुदात् ॥13॥

vahac chava-zava.zabdam niryayur dhanur ambudAt ||13

they flash, the golden bolts, the flocks of arrows;

and without a break

—"shava!—shava!"—

they fall upon sindhu, like showers upon the sea

* dhanur ambudAt – a bow from a cloud — [vlm reads this as indra-dhanu, a rainbow, but there is no variety of colors in a cloud of arrows. AB has nothing to say. jd] — [vlm is clearly mistaken. Here the bow of the King (vidUratha) is compared to a cloud (ambuda). The shower of arrows fell from the cloud – his bow – on the ocean – the King sindhu! AS]

बाण-मन्दाकिनी-पूरं व्रजन्तं सिन्धु-पूरणे ।

bANa-mandAkinI-pUram vrajantam sindhu-pUraNe |

वातायनात् तम् आलोक्य लीला तत्-पुर.वासिनी॥14॥

vAtAyanAt tam Alokya lIlA tat-pura.vAsinI ||14

*lIlA

(the lIlA of that place)

can see it from her window,

a gangA flood of arrows from the Archers of sindhu

~vlm.Then from the window, the lIlA who was the native of that city saw the darts of her husband rushing like the currents of the Ganges against the Sindhu forces resembling a sea.

तेन बाण-समूहेन जयम् आशङ्क्य भर्तरि ।

tena bANa-samUhena jayam AzaGkya bhartari |

उवाच वाक्यम् आनन्द-विकसन्-मुख-पङ्कजा ॥15॥

uvAca vAkyam Ananda-vikasan-mukha-paGkajA ||15

that flock of arrows makes her doubtful of the victory of her husband,

and

she cries to the Goddess, her face blooming with joy like a lotus

~AS. AzaGkya is often "having doubted", but here it is used in a positive sense. The meaning is: Having wagered on the victory to her lord (based on ) that flock of arrows, her face blooming with joy, she spoke: mukha-paGkajA does not have to be face-lotus, it is a standard poetic device and can be dropped in translation. [jd. Omission makes paraphrase rather than translation. you read the arrow.cloud as from her husband; I read it as from sindhu; her joy is at the sight of the Goddess].

~vlm.¹⁵She understood the flight of those darts to promise victory to her lord, and then spoke gladly to Saraswati, with her lotus-like mouth.

जय देवि जयत्य्_एष नाथो_अस्माकम् विलोकय । किम्.च_अनेन शर-ओघेण मेरु:_अप्य्_एति चूर्णताम् ॥१६॥

jaya devi jayati_eSa: nAtha:_asmAkam vilokaya | kim.ca_anena zara-ogheNa meru:_api_eti cUrNatAm ||16||

"All hail the Goddess, and all hail our Lord!

Look how his arrows flood

—

it's enuf to powder Mount Meru!"

~vlm. 16 "Be victorious O goddess, and behold victory waiting on the side of my lord whose darts are piercing the rocks and breaking them to pieces."

तस्याम् एवं वदन्त्यां तु घन-स्नेह-रव-आकुलम् ।

tasyAm evam vadantyAm tu ghana-sneha-rava-Akulam |

प्रेक्षण-व्यग्रयोर् देव्योर् हसन्त्योर् मानुषीं हृदा ॥17॥

prekSaNa-vyagrayor devyor hasantyor mAnuSIm hRdA ||17

then just.when she speaks these words all full of love,

the Goddess smiles upon that smiling woman

with her great humanity of heart

< mAnuSIm manuSya-deha-Atma-buddhim | aprabuddhAm iti yAvat ||> Comm. —

~vlm.¹⁷As she was uttering these words full of affection, the goddesses eyed her sideways and smiled at her womanish tenderness of heart.

*AS: AB is giving the hint. mAnuSI means immature, like an ordinary man. [!!! jd: I will never translate 'immature'. love may be many things, but "immature" is not one of them.] The syntax is indeed complicated here. The meaning goes thus: prekSaNa-vyagrayor devyor hasantyor (in front of the two Goddesses (saraswati and Lila 2) engrossed in watching and smiling) tasyAm evam mAnuSIm hRdA ghana-sneha-rava-Akulam vadantyAm tu (as she (Lila 1) was thus expressing her natural feelings with voice indicative of her great affection).

*jd. - tasyAm evam vadantyAm tu – But as she was saying this —ghana-sneha-rava-Akulam – all full of love —prekSaNa-vyagrayor – her eyes intent upon ??? —devyor hasantyor – of the two smiling women —mAnuSIm hRdA – human at heart. ???

तच् छर-अर्णवम् आमत्तम् अपिबत् सिन्धु-वाडव: ।

शर-उष्मणा ह्य् अगस्त्येन जह्नुर् मन्दाकिनीम् इव ॥18॥

tac_chara-arNavam Amattam apibat sindhu-vADava: |

zara-uSmaNA hy agastyena jahnur mandAkinIm iva ||18

a crazy wave

—the vAdava Submarine Fire of sindhu—

sucked

—with the heat of its arrows—

everything dry,

just as agastya and jahnu drank the waters dry

~vlm.¹⁸The flaming fire of Sindhu swallowed the raging sea of Viduratha’s arrows like an undersea fire consumes water, and like Jahnu drank the stream of Ganges. ¹⁹The Sindhu missile weapons thwarted the thickening arrows of his adversary, and drove them back broken and flying as dust in the empty air.

बाण-वर्षेण कणशस्_तम् सायक-महाघनम् । छित्त्वा तनुरज: कृत्वा चिक्षेप गगन-अर्णवे ॥१९॥

bANa-varSeNa kaNaza:_tam sAyaka-mahAghanam | chittvA tanuraja: kRtvA cikSepa gagana-arNave ||19

the arrow-shower

drop.by.drop

made a mighty missile-cloud.

burst

and created a fine dust that filled the entire sky-ocean

~AS. With (his own ) shower of arrows, having broken up the arrow cloud (of sindhu) bit by bit, turning it into fine dust, he scattered it into the sky-ocean.

बाण-वर्षेण कणशस् तं सायक-महाघनम् ।

bANa-varSeNa kaNazas taM sAyaka-mahAghanam |

छित्त्वा तनुरज: कृत्वा चिक्षेप गगन-अर्णवे ॥19॥

chittvA tanuraja: kRtvA cikSepa gagana-arNave ||19

the arrow-shower drop-by-drop met the mighty missile-cloud.

the cloudburst made metallic dust that filled the whole sky-ocean.

~vlm.19 The Sindhu missile weapons thwarted the thickening arrows of his adversary, and drove them back broken and flying as dust in the empty air.

यथा दीपस्य शान्तस्य न परिज्ञायते गति: । तस्य सायक-सङ्घस्य न विज्ञाता तथा गति: ॥२०॥

yathA dIpasya zAntasya na pari.jJAyate gati: | tasya sAyaka-saGghasya na vijJAtA tathA gati: ||20

as an unflickering snuffed lamp

gives no help on a darkened path,

the company of swordsmen could not see the weapons come their way

~AS. Just as the movement of a lamp is invisible (na parijJAyate gati: ) if it does not flicker (dIpasya zAntasya), one could not perceive the speed of that swarm of arrows (sAyaka-saGghasya).

~vlm.As an extinguished lamp loses its light in the air, so the flashes of the fire arms disappeared in the sky, and nobody knew where they fled.

तम् छित्त्वा सायका-सारम् शरीर-अम्बु-धरम् घनम् । व्योम्नि प्रसारयाम्.आस रसाच्_छव-शात-अन्वितम् ॥२१॥

tam chittvA sAyakA-sAram zarIra-ambu-dharam ghanam | vyomni prasArayAm.Asa rasAt_zava-zAta-anvitam ||21

having repelled a rush of ringing* swords,

he now unleashed a thick stormcloud of astras

whose poison made corpses by the hundreds

* SDSingh, Ancient Indian Warfare: "The word <sAyaka> has ... been used to signify a sword, described as adorned with bells." Mbh 4.38.31.

AS: Having broken up the attack of those arrows [??? see above jd] (tam chittvA sAyakA-sAraM) which were like a cloud holding bodies like water (zarIra-ambu-dharam ghanam), he splattered them across space (vyomni prasArayAm.Asa) as clouds with hundreds of corpses as water (rasAc chava-zAta-anvitam). ¶ Perhaps the image is this:The swarm of arrows released by sindhu was followed by his soldiers as well, and vidUratha while breaking up the arrows, killed the soldiers as well.}

~vlm.²¹Having thus dispelled the shower of arrows, the Sindhu king sent a thick cloud of his weapons, appearing as hundreds of dead bodies flying in the air.

विदूरथस् तम् अप्य् आशु व्यधमत्सायक-उत्तमै: ।

vidUrathas tam apy Azu vyadhamatsAyaka-uttamai: |

सामान्य-जलदं मत्तं कल्पान्त-पवनो यथा॥22॥

sAmAnya-jaladam mattam kalpAnta-pavano yathA ||22

vidUratha quickly-enough

struck-back with his best archery,

making a mad careening cloud whirling in a Doomsday hurricane

~vlm.²²Viduratha repelled them quickly by means of his better bolts, as a hurricane disperses the frightening clouds in the air.

~AS. vidUratha promptly hit him back (tam apy Azu vyadhamat) with his best arrows (sAyaka-uttamaiH), as the Dooms day wind would push back an ordinary cloud.

कृत-प्रतिकृतैर् एवं बाण-वर्षैर् महीपती ।

kRta-pratikRtair evam bANa-varSair mahIpatI |

व्यर्थी-कृतैर् अनयतां प्रहारम् अविचारणै: ॥23॥

vyarthI-kRtair anayatAm prahAram avicAraNai: ||23

so back-and.forth they sent their rains of arrows,

those two mighty Lords,

wreaking their ruin as they waged their war,

not showing much good sense

~vlm.²³Both kings, baffled in their aims by opposing arms let indiscriminately loose against each another, laid hold on more powerful missiles.

अथ_आदधे मोहन-अस्त्रं सिन्धुर् गन्धर्व-सौहृदात् ।

atha_Adadhe mohana-astram sindhur gandharva-sauhRdAt |

प्राप्तं तेन ययुर् लोका विना मोहं विदूरथात् ॥24॥

prAptam tena yayur lokA vinA moham vidUrathAt ||24

but then sindhu loosed

Delusion,

an astra Weapon he received from a gandharva friend

thereby

everyone became deluded—

everyone but vidUratha

~vlm.²⁴Sindhu let fly his magic missile that was gift from a gandharva. It kept the army of his enemy all spell-bound except Viduratha himself.

व्यस्त-शस्त्र-अम्बरा मूका विषण्ण-वदन-ईक्षणा: ।

vyasta-zastra-ambarA mUkA viSaNNa-vadana-IkSaNA: |

मृता इव_अभवन् योधाश् चित्र-न्यस्ता इव_अथवा॥25॥

mRtA iva_abhavan yodhAz citra-nyastA iva_athavA||25

the weapons scatter through the sky.

the soldiers are struck dumb,

and stop,

a sorry-faced sight,

like dead men, or still as a painted picture

~vlm.25 Struck with this weapon, the soldiers became as mute as moonstruck, staring in their looks, and appearing as dead bodies or as pictures in a painting.

यावद् विदूरथाद् अन्यं मोहो नयति मन्दताम् ।

yAvad vidUrathAd anyam moho nayati mandatAm |

तावद् विदूरथो राजा प्रबोध-अस्त्रम् अथ_आददे ॥26॥

tAvad vidUratho rAjA prabodha-astram atha_Adade ||26

and when their delusion leads-to stillness,

rAjA vidUratha launches his pra.bodha Wake.up astra

~vlm.26 As the soldiers of Viduratha remained spellbound within their files, King Viduratha employed his instruments of a counter-charm to remove the spell.

~AS. While (yAvad) others beside vidUratha (vidUrathAd anyaM) were dulled by confusion (moho nayati mandatAm), (tAvad – in English no counterword to while is needed) vidUratha brought out the "prabodhastra" the Wake.up astra. A+dA has the meaning of taking up, not sending. The idea is that he pulled it out from his collection!

तत: प्रबोधम्_आपन्ना: प्रजा: प्रातर्_इव_अब्जिनी । विदूरथे भवत्_सिन्धु: क्रुद्धो_स्र्क इव राक्षसे ॥२७॥

tata: prabodham_ApannA: prajA: prAtar_iva_abjinI | vidUrathe bhavat_sindhu: kruddho_srka iva rAkSase||27

now they all come awake

like early-morning lotuses

sindhu

strikes-out.at

vidUratha

just like

the Sun

the demon *mandeha.Mybody

*mandeha m. pl. (fr. >man = manas + deha?) a kind of rAkSasa in R.4.40.41-43 (Skt-Engl. trans. at http://www.valmikiramayan.net/kishkindha/sarga40/kishkindha_40_frame.htm who attempts to obstruct the sun. vidUrathe viSaye | rAkSase mandeha-Akhye_'rka iva kruddho lohito_'bhUd ity artha: y3048.027. ABComm.

~vlm.this awakened the senses of his men like morning twilight reveals a bed of lotuses, and the rising sun opens their closed petals to light. The Sindhu king fired his rage at them like the raging.

नाग-अस्त्रम् आददे भीमं पाश-बन्धन-खेददम् ।

nAga-astram Adade bhImam pAza-bandhana-khedadam |

तेन_अभवन् नभो व्याप्तं भोगिभि: पर्वत-उपमै: ॥28॥

tena_abhavan nabho vyAptam bhogibhi: parvata.upamai: ||28||

सर्पैर् विलसिता भूमिर् मृणालै: सरसी यथा ।

sarpair vilasitA bhUmir mRNAlai: sarasI yathA |

संपन्ना गिरय: सर्वे कृष्ण-पन्नग.कम्बला: ॥29॥

saMpannA giraya: sarve kRSNa-pannaga.kambalA: ||29

now he sends his Serpent.astra

which binds the body like a noose;

and so the sky becomes filled with snakes

in heaps

like mountains.

the earth is slithering with snakes—

as a pond crawls with its drifting lotuses.

The mountains sport their new blankets of crawling black.snakes

~vlm.²⁸He flung his serpentine weapons upon them, which bound like a band around all their bodies, encircling the battle ground and air like snakes wrapped round crags and rocks.

सर्पैर्विलसिता भूमिर्मृणालैः सरसी यथा ।

sarpair vilasitA bhUmir mRNAlai: sarasI yathA |

संपन्ना गिरयः सर्वे कृष्णपन्नगकम्बलाः॥२९॥

saMpannA giraya: sarve kRSNa-pannaga.kambalA: ||29

the earth is slithering with snakes—as a pond crawls with its drifting

lotuses. The mountains sport their new blankets of crawling black-snakes

~vlm.²⁹The ground was filled with snakes like a lake with the spreading stalks of lotuses, and the bodies of gigantic warriors were bound by them like hills by huge and horrible hydras.

~AS. The ground covered by slithering serpents was like a lake full of lotus stalks, all mountains appeared to be wearing a blanket of black snakes.

पदार्था: सर्व एव_इमे विष-उष्म-खिन्नताम् ययु: । सपर्वत-वन-आभोगा ययौ विवशताम् मही ॥३०॥

padArthA: sarva eva_ime viSa-uSma-khinnatAm yayu: | saparvata-vana-AbhogA yayau vivazatAm mahI ||30

everything is overpowered by the potent power of poison

the serpent-covered Earth

in every mountain and every forest

came to grief

~AS. Everything in the world was suffering due to the heat of the poison. The earth became desperate due to its forests and mountains covered in serpents.

~vlm.30 Everything was overpowered by the sharp power of the poison, and the inhabitants of the hills and forests were benumbed by the venomous infection.

पूत-अङ्गार-समाकीर्णम् विष-वैषम्य-शंसिन: । ववू: रूक्ष-उष्ण-नीहार-वाता ज्वलन-रेणव: ॥३१॥

pUta-aGgAra-samAkIrNam viSa-vaiSamya-zaMsina: | vavU: rUkSa-uSNa-nIhAra-vAtA jvalana-reNava: ||31

the stench of white-hot coals

scatters

before a bitter poison-cloud that blows a torrid mist,

a wind of burning dust,

a fog of fire

~vlm.The smart poison spread a fiery heat all around, and the frozen snows like fire-brands sent forth their burning particles which were blown by the hot winds in the air.

~VA. stinking coals were all around, promising poison sorrows, winds blew sour, hot fogs of corroding dust.

~AS. Winds bearing hot harsh fog, with particles of embers made everything filled with bright hot coals, giving the painful experience of poison.

विदूरथो_ऽथ सौपर्णम् आददे_ऽस्त्रम् महस्त्र-वित् । उदगुर्_गरुड-अस्त्रेण सौपर्णा: पर्वता इव ॥३२॥

vidUratha:_atha sauparNam Adade_astram mahastra-vit | udagu:_garuDa-astreNa sauparNA: parvatA: iva ||32

and now

rAjA vidUratha

—an astra Master—

took.up the astra sauparNa,

laden with many garuDa Snake-eater missiles,

mighty as mountains

~VA vidUratha, knower of great astras, released now sauparNa astra, spitted out by garuda astra, sauparNa birds were like mountains

*AS. SauparNa and GaruDa are the same astra – both refer to GaruDa the famous eagle who was the sworn enemy of snakes. From this astra, birds arose (udagur garuDa-astreNa sauparNAH) which were like mountains (in size).

~vlm.32. The armigerous Vidúratha who was equally skilled in arms, had then recourse to his Garúda or serpivorous weapons, which fled like mountainous eagles to all sides.

काञ्चनी.कृत-सर्व.आशा: सर्व.आशा-परिपूरका: । पक्ष-पर्वत-सम्रम्भ-जनित-प्रलय-अनिला: ॥३३॥

kAJcanI.kRta-sarva.AzA: sarva.AzA-paripUrakA: | pakSa-parvata-samrambha-janita-pralaya-anilA: ||33

the sky is golden everywhere,

spilling in all directions with those astra wings that beat the air,

and shake the mountains like the Doomsday Wind

~vlm.³³Their golden wings spread in the sky on all sides, and embroidered the air with purple gold. The flapping of their wings wheezed like a breeze that blew the poisonous vapor far away into the air.

घोण-अनिल-जव-आकृष्ट-श्वसद्-भुजग-मण्डला: । महा-घुरघुर-आराव-पूरित-अम्भोधि-खण्डका: ॥३४॥

ghoNa-anila-java-AkRSTa-zvasad-bhujaga-maNDalA: | mahA-ghuraghura-ArAva-pUrita-ambhodhi-khaNDakA: ||34

the serpents' noses hissed their wind

that ring of snakes made a great growl,

like waves grinding against the shore

~vlm. ... resembling the gurgling of waters in a whirlpool in the sea.

ससुपर्ण-घनो_अपात्तम् सर्प-ओघम् भू-प्रपूरकम् । कष्टम् शल-शलायन्तम् अगस्त्य इव वारिधिम् ॥३५॥

sasuparNa-ghano_'pAttam sarpa-ogham bhU-prapUrakam | kaSTam zala-zalAyantam agastya iva vAridhim ||35

a cloud of vultures ate the nest of snakes that filled the battleground,

sucking.up all those horrors

just as agastya sucked.up the sea

~AS: The eagle-cloud (sasuparNa-ghanaH) drank up (apAt) the flood of serpents (sarpa-oghaM) covering up the grounds (bhU-prapUrakam) and somehow slithering about (kaSTam zala-zalAyantam); just as agastya had drunk up the ocean.

सर्पकम् बल-निर्मुक्तम् भू-मण्डलम्_अराजत । चिरात्_तम् _वनि-रन्ध्रम्_इव निर्वारि-राशि च ॥३६॥

sarpakam bala-nirmuktam bhU-maNDalam arAjata | cirAt tam avani-randhram iva nirvAri-rAzi ca ||36

freed from its covering of snakes,

the battlefield again grows bright

in a while

the circle of the horizon looks like coming rain

~vlm... like the surface of the earth reappears to light after its deliverance from the waters of the deluge.

ततस् तद् गरुड-आनीकं क्वाप्य् अगच्छद् अदृश्यताम् ।

tatas tad garuDa-AnIkam kvApy agacchad adRzyatAm |

दीप-ओघ इव वातेन शरद् एव_अब्द-मण्डलम् ॥37॥

dIpa-ogha iva vAtena zarad eva_abda-maNDalam ||37

then the garuda formation quite disappeared

—a row of lamps extinguished by the wind—

or else a cluster of clouds in autumn

~vlm.37 Afterwards the army of garuDas disappeared from sight like a line of lamps put out by the wind, and like an assembly of clouds vanishes in autumn.

वज्र-भीत्येव पक्ष-ओघ-पर्वत-प्रकर: पुर: ।

vajra-bhItyeva pakSa-ogha-parvata-prakara: pura: |

स्वप्न-दृष्टं जगद् इव संकल्प-पुर-पूरवत् ॥38॥

svapna-dRSTam jagad iva saMkalpa-pura-pUravat ||38

as when the flying mountains flew from indra's fearsome thunderbolts,

the town became a world of dream,

full of imaginary citizens

~vlm.38 They fled like flying mountains fearing the bolts of thundering _indra_, and vanished like the impermanent world seen in a dream, or as like a castle in the sky built by fancy.

~VA. as many flying mountains from fear of lightning, like town seen in dream, like world full of imaginary cities? (continuation of description in previous verse how garudas disappeared?) ~AS. Yes, indeed! In the first line, the word is vajra the famous weapon of Indra. It is alluding to the mythological stories when Indra attacked flying mountains. The second line is talking about two separated things: world seen in a dream imagined city flooded by imagination.

ततस्_तमो अस्त्रम्_असृजत्_सिन्धुर्_अन्ध-अन्धकारदम् । तेन_अन्धकारो ववृधे कृष्णो भूजठर.उपम: ॥३९॥

tata:_tama: astram asRjat sindhu:_andha-andhakAra.dam | tena_andhakAra: vavRdhe kRSNa: bhUjaThara.upama: ||39

now sindhu lets.loose the Blindmaker Missile

and blinding darkness spreads everywhere,

blackness

dark as the dark heart of the Earth

~vlm.³⁹Then King Sindhu shot his shots of dark smoke that darkened the scene like the dark cave under the ground.

रोदोरन्ध्रे प्रविसृत एक-अर्णव इव_अभवत् ।

rodorandhre pravisRta eka-arNava iva_abhavat |

मत्स्या इव_अभवन् सेनास् ताराश् च मणयो_अभवन् ॥40॥

matsyA iva_abhavan senAs tArAz ca maNayo_'bhavan ||40

at midheaven it is all ocean

—the armies are like schools of fish—

and the stars

are wishing-stones

sunk in the ocean.sands

~vlm.40 It hid the face of the earth and sky like flood waters reaching to the sky’s face. It made the army appear like a shoal of fishes, and the stars like gems shining in the deep.

~AS: It (the darkness) became like an ocean entered into the hole between the earth and the sky. The armies were like the fish in this oceans and the stars like the jewels (in the ocean). • The ocean is supposed to be full of jewels, of course; recall the samudramanthana.

अन्धकार-प्रवृत्तेन मषी-पङ्क-अर्णव.उपमम् । कज्जल-अचल-संभार-उद्भूत-कल्प-अनिलैर् इव ॥४१॥

andhakAra-pravRttena maSI-paGka-arNava.upamam | kajjala-acala-saMbhAra-udbhUta-kalpa-anilair iva ||41

then there comes a blinding darkness

—

black as eyeshadow,

or a sea of mud,

or a sootblack mountain burdened.with bursts of kalpa.Doomsday wind

~vlm.41 The spreading darkness appeared like a sea of ink or dark mud, or like the particles of Anjana Hill blown by the breeze over the face of nature.

अन्ध-कूपे निपतिता इव_असन्-सकला: प्रजा: ।

andha-kUpe nipatitA iva_asan-sakalA: prajA: |

कल्पान्त इव संशेमुर् व्यवहारा दिशं प्रति ॥42॥

kalpAnta iva saMzemur vyavahArA dizam prati ||42

the people seem as.if fallen into a blind well,

they are still and motionless

—just like Doomsday!—

a stillness

stretching everywhere

~vlm.42 All beings seemed to be immersed in the sea or darkness, and to lose their energies as in the deep gloom of midnight.

~AS. All people lay about as if in a dark well, All activities everywhere stopped as if at the end of the Kalpa (doomsday).

विदूरथो ऽथ मार्तण्डम् दीपम् ब्रह्माण्ड-मण्डपे । अस्त्रम् मन्त्रविदम् श्रेष्ठ: सृष्ट्वा मन्त्रो व्यचेष्टयत् ॥४३॥

vidUratha:_atha mArtaNDam dIpam brahmANDa-maNDape | astram mantravidam zreSTha: sRSTvA mantra: vy.aceSTayat ||43

and now

vidUratha

seemed like the Death.egg sun in the brahma.egg temple

as he spoke the mantra that sent it forth

~vlm.⁴³Viduratha the best of the most skilful in ballistics, fired his sun-bright shot which like the sun illumined the vault of the sky.

~VA. now vidUratha, noble knower of mantras for astras, in brahma-anda, released light of sun by uttering the mantra.

~AS. The astra is called mArtaNDa dIpa "Sun lamp" astra. He released it in the sky referred to as brahmANDamaNDapa.

अथ_उदित-तमो-ऽम्भोधिम् अर्क-अगस्त्यो गभस्तिभि: । अपिबत्_कृष्णम्_अम्भोदम् शरत्.काल इव_अमल: ॥४४॥

atha_udita-tamo-'mbhodhim arka-agastyo gabhastibhi: | apibat_kRSNam_ambhodam zarat.kAla iva_amala: ||44

and

now

that sun arose,

and his rays drank.up the darkness

—it was like agastya drinking the ocean—

as the autumn sky grew clear

~vlm.44 It rose high amidst the spreading darkness like the sun with his effulgent beams, and dispelled the shades of darkness, as autumn does the rainy clouds.

अन्धकार-अम्बर-उन्मुक्ता विरेजुर् अमला दिश: ।

andhakAra-ambara-unmuktA virejur amalA diza: |

भूपते: पुरत: कान्ता इव रम्य-पयोधरा-: ॥45॥

bhUpate: purata: kAntA iva ramya-payodharA-: ||45

the blind sky cleared,

and shone spotlessly everywhere.

the clouds

were like the breasts of nursing girls,

the retinue of an EarthLord

~vlm.⁴⁵The sky being cleared of its veil of darkness, manifested itself with its reddish clouds that resembled the ruddy bodices of maidens before the king.

ययु: प्रकटताम् अन्तर् अखिला वन-राजय: । लोभ-कज्जल-जालेन मुक्ता इव सताम् धिय: ॥४६॥

yayu: prakaTatAm antar akhilA vana-rAjaya: | lobha-kajjala-jAlena muktA iva satAm dhiya: ||46||

अथ कोप-आकुल: सिन्धू राक्षस-अस्त्रम् महाभयम् । क्षणाद् उदीरयाम्.आस मन्त्र-उदीर्ण-शर-आत्मकम् ॥४७॥

atha kopa-Akula: sindhU rAkSasa-astram mahAbhayam | kSaNAd udIrayAm.Asa mantra-udIrNa-zara-Atmakam ||47

and there project unto our sight

rows after row of trees

just as when,

from-out.of the sooty net of greed

the thoughts of all good men are freed

...

now

overcome with anger,

sindhu released the frightening rAkSasa missile

—

the Demon, a mantra.powered superweapon

~vlm.46. Now the landscape appeared in full view, like the understanding (good sense) of men coming in full play after the extinction of their avarice. 47. The enraged Sindhu then laid hold on his dreadful demon rakshasa weapon, which he instantly flung on his enemy with its bedeviled darts.

~AS. All the rows of forests came into full view, as if the minds of the good people were freed from the soot of avarice.

उदगुर्_भीषणा दिग्भ्य: *पुरुषा वन-राक्षसा: । पाताल-गज-"फूत्"कार-क्षुब्धा इव महार्णवा: ॥४८॥

udagur_bhISaNA digbhya: *puruSA vana-rAkSasA: | pAtAla-gaja-"phUt"kAra-kSubdhA iva mahArNavA: ||48

fearfully they run,

madly in all directions,

humans and forest demons,

like

trumpeting stampeding elephants,

ocean.waves crashing onto the shore

~tpd. *var. paruSA.

⁴⁸These horrid and destructive darts flew on all sides in the air, and roared like the sea and the gigantic dark clouds of heaven.

~vlm.48. These horrid and destructive darts flew on all sides in the air, and roared as the roaring sea and elephantine clouds (dighastis) of heaven.

~AS. The idea is that the 8 elephants who hold the world up blow – that is the phUt-kAra and this causes the big waves in the world’s oceans. Again, AB has supplied just the right hint, VLM did not get it either(:-)) There might be typo here. It is paruSA not puruSA. The word means "harsh". Thus full meaning is: From all directions, there arose fierce forest demons (vanarAkSAH), like the angry oceans (disturbed) by the blowing of the directional elephants under the earth.

कपिल-ऊर्ध्व-जटा-धूम्रा: स्फुटच् "चटचट"-आरवा: । अग्नयो लेलिहान-उग्र-जिह्वा आर्द्र-इन्धना इव ॥४९॥

kapila-Urdhva-jaTA-dhUmrA: sphuTac "caTacaTa"-AravA: | agnayo lelihAna-ugra-jihvA Ardra-indhanA iva ||49||

सावर्त-वृत्तयो व्योम्नि भीम-चीत्कार-"टाम्"कृता: । अग्नि-दाहा महाधूम-विलोला इव स-उल्मुका: ॥५०॥

sAvarta-vRttayo vyomni bhIma-cItkAra-"TAm"kRtA: | agni-dAhA mahAdhUma-vilolA iva sa-ulmukA: ||50

bright as a red topknot,

smoky,

sputtering "chaTa.chaTa",

fire

licked

with its sticky tongue

everywhere

—

in whirlpools churning in the air,

with fearsome sounds of "cheet" and "tumm",

the conflagration spread its smoke,

sparking to torches everywhere

⁴⁹They were like the flames of bright fire, with their long licking tongues and ash-colored and smoky curls rising like white hairs on the head, and making a chat-chat sound like that of moist fuel burning.

⁵⁰They wheeled round in circles in the air with a horrible tang-tang noise, now flaming as fire and now fuming as smoke, and then flying about as sparks of fire.

दंष्ट्रा-बिस-अङ्कुर-आक्रान्त-मुख-पङ्क-आक्ष-देहका: ।

daMSTrA-bisa-aGkura-AkrAnta-mukha-paGka-AkSa-dehakA: |

उदिता लोम-जम्बाला दुष्पल्वल-तटा इव ॥51॥

uditA loma-jambAlA duSpalvala-taTA iva ||51

between the teeth

a lotus.shoot,

a mud-eyed body has hair like sprouting weeds

on the the muckish shore of a cesspool

~vlm.51 With mouths beset by rows of sprouting teeth like lotus stalks, and faces defaced by dirty and moldy eyes, their hairy bodies were like stagnate pools full of moss and weeds.

निगिरन्त: प्रधावन्तो गर्जन्त: सर्जिता इव ।

nigiranta: pradhAvanto garjanta: sarjitA iva |

जटाजाल-तडित्-पुञ्जा जलदा: सजला इव ॥52॥

jaTAjAla-taDit-puJjA jaladA: sajalA iva ||52

devouring, flowing, roaring, the battle surged.

the sky was like the tangled mass of a mendicant's hair,

flashing with lightning, a stormy cloud

~vlm.52 They flew about and flashed and roared aloud like dark clouds, while the locks of hairs on their heads glared like lightning in the midway sky.

एतस्मिन्-न् अन्तरे तस्मिंल् लीलानाथो विदूरथ: ।

etasmin-n antare tasmiMl lIlAnAtho vidUratha: |

नारायण-अस्त्रं प्रददे दुष्ट-भूत-निवारणम् ॥53॥

nArAyaNa-astram pradade duSTa-bhUta-nivAraNam ||53

then

—in the middle of all this—

lIlA's Lord vidUratha sent.forth

Manway,

the nArAyana Weapon that drives.away all wicked things

~vlm.53 At this instant Viduratha, lIlA’s husband, sent forth his Narayana weapon that had the power to suppress wicked spirits and demons.

उदीर्यमाण एव_अस्मिन् मन्त्र-राजे_ऽस्त्र-राजय: । राक्षसानाम् प्रशेमुस्_ता अन्धकार इव_उदये ॥५४॥

udIryamANa eva_asmin mantra-rAje_'stra-rAjaya: | rAkSasAnAm prazemus_tA andhakAra iva_udaye ||54

each one was ordered.forth by its ruling mantra,

and the streaking line of astra.s

drove.off the rAkSasa Demons,

as sunrise drives the dawn.struck dark away

~vlm.54 The appearance of this magic weapon made the bodies of the rakshasa demons disappear like darkness at sunrise.

प्रमुष्ट-राक्षस-अनीकम् अभवद् भुवन-त्रयम् । शरदि_इव गत-अम्भोदम् व्योम निर्मलम् आबभौ ॥५५॥

pramuSTa-rAkSasa-anIkam abhavad bhuvana-trayam | zaradi_iva gata-ambhodam vyoma nirmalam Ababhau ||55

now

the rAkSasa.Demon army

disappears

from this Triple World

—

the autumn clouds are gone.away,

the sky is quite immaculate

~vlm.55 This entire army of fiends was lost in the air, like the dark clouds of the rainy season vanish into nothing at the approach of autumn.

अथ सिन्धुर्_मुमोच_अस्त्रम्_आग्नेयम् ज्वलित-अम्बरम् । जज्वलु: ककुभस्_तेन कल्प-अग्नि-ज्वलिता इव ॥५६॥

atha sindhu:_mumoca_astram Agneyam jvalita-ambaram | jajvalu: kakubha:_tena kalpa-agni-jvalitA: iva ||56

but now sindhu looses the astra

agneya the Fiery,

and it fills the sky with flame,

it sets fire to the horizon,

full Doomsday Fire

~vlm.⁵⁶Then Sindhu discharged his fire arms which set fire to the sky, and began to burn down everything like the all destroying conflagration of the last day.

धूम-अम्बुद-भराच् छन्ना बभूवु: सकला दिश: ।

dhUma-ambuda-bharAc channA babhUvu: sakalA diza: |

गगने प्रोत-पाताल-तिमिर-आकुलिता इव ॥57॥

gagane prota-pAtAla-timira-AkulitA iva ||57

and that smoke-bearing cloud covers the ten directions of the sky:

it's dark as hell

~vlm.57 They filled all the sides of air with clouds of smoke that seemed to hide the face of heaven under the darkness of hell.

बभूवुर् ज्वलित-आकारा गिरय: काञ्चना इव ।

babhUvur jvalita-AkArA giraya: kAJcanA iva |

प्रफुल्ल-वन-नीरन्ध्र-चम्पक-ओघ-वना इव ॥58॥

praphulla-vana-nIrandhra-campaka-ogha-vanA iva ||58

now it's a volcano of gold,

or a blossoming forest glade

with everywhere the bright yellow champaka flowers—a flood of gold

~vlm.58 They set fire to the woods in the hills which burned like mountains of gold, while the trees appeared to bloom with yellow plumeria flowers all around.

ययुर् व्योम-अद्रि-दिक्-कुञ्जा ज्वाल-अजाल-जटालताम् ।

yayur vyoma-adri-dik-kuJjA jvAla-ajAla-jaTAlatAm |

कुङ्कुमेन_उत्सवे मृत्यो: समालब्धा इव स्रज: ॥59॥

kuGkumena_utsave mRtyo: samAlabdhA iva sraja: ||59

and so the sky blazed,

and the mountains with their groves:—

the four directions were a fiery net of hair

dressed with red kumkuma powder

at a feast of red.garlanded death

~vlm.⁵⁹All the sides of the sky above, and the hills, woods and groves below, were enveloped in the flames, as if they were covered under the red powder of Holi with which Yama, the God of the underworld, was playing over the plain.

ज्वलिता जनता च_एक-शङ्किनी सा नभ:-स्पृशा । सहस्र-आकृति-नौ-वेग-चलितेन_इव सागरात् ॥६०॥

jvalitA janatA ca_eka-zaGkinI sA nabha:-spRzA | sahasra-AkRti-nau-vega-calitena_iva sAgarAt ||60

and

the people were scorched with fear

by that sky-touching fire that flew across the sky,

like a thousand ships speeding across the ocean

~vlm.The heaven-spreading flame burnt legions into a heap of ashes like an undersea fire consumes entire ships and fleets in the sea.

जित्वा रिपुम् पुनर्_असौ यथा प्रहरते तथा । वारुणम् वि.ससर्ज_अस्त्रम् पूजयित्वा विदूरथ: ॥६१॥

jitvA ripum punar_asau yathA praharate tathA | vAruNam visasarja_astram pUjayitvA vidUratha: ||61

then vidUratha once again followed.up with another strike,

sending the astra vAruNa the Watery

as his obeisance

~vlm.61 As Sindhu continued to dart his fire arms against his defeated adversary, Viduratha let off his watery arms with reverential regard.

~AS. Having defeated the enemy-the Agni–astra (jitvA ripum) as one hits back (asau yathA praharate tathA ) the short meaning is "in retaliation ". The vAruNa-astra was sent with a special worship rite, not just casually thrown!

आययु: सलिला-पूरास् तमः-पूरा इव_अभित: ।

Ayayu: salilA-pUrAs tama:-pUrA iva_abhita: |

अधस्ताद् ऊर्ध्वतो दिग्भ्यो द्रव-रूपा इव_अद्रय: ॥62॥

adhastAd Urdhvato digbhyo drava-rUpA iva_adraya: ||62

there came.forth cloudsful of water,

all around,

above,

below,

—

they blew everywhere,

like melting mountains

~vlm.62 Filled with water, these flew forward likes the shades of darkness from their hidden cells. They spread up and down and on all sides like a melted mountain gushing in a hundred cataracts.

भागा: इव शर-व्योम्नि धृतयाना: इव-अम्बुदा: ।

bhAgA: iva zara-vyomni dhRtayAnA: iva-ambudA: |

महार्णवा: इव-उच्चस्था: कुल-शैल-शिला: इव ॥३।४८॥63॥

mahArNavA: iva-uccasthA: kula-zaila-zilA: iva ||63

the quarters of the missile-sky looked like clouds in their constant course,

or a great ocean there above

(or rather a great mountain-range)

~vlm.⁶³They stretched like mountainous clouds or like a sea in the air, and fell in showers of watery arrows and stones on the ground.

तमाल-ओघा इव_उड्डीना: सम्धिता इव रात्रय: । कज्जल-ओघा इव_उद्भूता लोकालोक-तटाद्_इव ॥६४॥

tamAla-oghA iva_uDDInA: samdhitA iva rAtraya: | kajjala-oghA iva_udbhUtA lokAloka-taTAd_iva ||64

they loom

like dark-barked tamAla trees

—like risen night-shadows —

they spread

their clouds of sootlike darkness

that spread over the slopes of the lokAloka Light&Dark Mountains.*

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokaloka

~vlm.⁶⁴They flew up like large tamara trees, and gathered in groups like the shades of night, appeared as the thick gloom beyond the polar mountains.

रसातल-गुह-आभोगा इव व्योम-दिदृक्षव: ।

rasAtala-guha-AbhogA iva vyoma-didRkSava: |

महा-घुरघुर-आराव-रंहो-बृंहित-मूर्तय: ॥65॥

mahA-ghuraghura-ArAva-raMho-bRMhita-mUrtaya: ||65||

ताम् अग्नि-संततिं मत्ताम् आचचाम_अम्बु-संतति: ।

tAm agni-saMtatim mattAm AcacAma_ambu-saMtati:

like hell-hole-dwellers coming.forth to see the sky,

a great gurgling crowd of fast-moving forms came.forth.

the flooding water flowed and drowned that mad firestorm

~vlm.65. They gave the sky the appearance of subterraneous caves, emitting a gurgling sound (ghurghura) like the loud roaring of elephants.

~AS. The breakup is guhA+bhogA cave +serpents. Your meaning is kind of correct:

vyoma-didRkSava: – sky-spectators ??? like the serpents from caves in hell, growing fast with a roaring sound, (rising) as if to see the sky. Note that varuNa is lord over the nether worlds and his floods are trying to reach heaven!

भुवन-व्यापिनी संध्याम् आशु कृष्णा_इव यामिनी ॥३।४८।६६॥

bhuvana-vyApinI saMdhyAm Azu kRSNA_iva yAminI ||66

sunset covered the earth—and soon the night grew dark

~AS: Those fire demons (agnisaMtatim) were sipped up (AcacAma) by the water streams (ambusaMtatiH), as the dark night (kRSBA yAminI) sips up the world covering (bhuvanavyApinI) twilight.The only imagery here is that of Acamana = the act of ceremonial sipping practiced at all rituals as an act of purification. The word saMtati is often meant as progeny, but can also be a stream, a multitude etc.

ताम्_अग्नि-संततिम् पीत्वा पूरयाम्.आस भूतलम् । जल-श्री: जटितम् देहम् निद्रा इव व्यक्तिम्_एयुषी ॥६७॥

tAm_agni-saMtatim pItvA pUrayAm.Asa bhUtalam | jala-zrI: jaTitam deham nidrA iva vyaktim_eyuSI ||67

the earth grew full

as it drank.up that flood of fire,

and a full belly brings.on sleep

having drunk all that outspread fire

the waters soaked into the earth,

a body stirring in its sleep

~vlm.67 Having swallowed the fires above, the waters flooded the ground and filled it with a humidity which served to weaken all bodies, as the power of sleep numbs everybody in death-like torpidity.

* #jaTita, #jhaTita - °टति , to become entangled or intermixed Dha1tup.x,19; jala-zrI: jaTitam deham nidrA iva vyaktim_eyuSI || y3048.067 • जट् #jaT -> cl.1 P. = #jhaT √झट् Dha1tup. ix , 18. cl.1. cf. uj.jhaTita उज्-झटित.

~AS. jaTitam is probably jaDitam in meaning. It can mean hairy (with jaTA) or twisted. Perhaps refers to a person lying in a twisted position, because I don’t see the relevance of the word "hairy". If it is trying to think of the trees as kind of hair, the analogy might make some sense, but it sounds rather artificial • Having swallowed up the demon fire (tAm agni-saMtatim pItvA), the waters(jala-zrIH) covered the whole earth(pUrayAm.Asa bhUtalam), like the sleep (nidreva) about to appear(vyaktim eyuSI) in a sluggish body(jaTitam dehaM). • The general analogy might be something like this: Like sleep trying to take over (vyaktim eyuSI) a lying body. The phrase vyaktim eyuSI means "wanting to come into expression/existence ".

एवं-विधान् अस्त्र-मोहान् विदधुर् धावनेतरे ।

evaM-vidhAn astra-mohAn vidadhur dhAvanetare |

मिथो-मायामयान् अग्रे पश्यन्त्य् अनुभवन्ति च ॥68॥

mitho-mAyAmayAn agre pazyanty anubhavanti ca ||68

with many such astra-delusions

they traded volleys back-and.forth,

delusions made of mAyA

that they saw;

that they experienced

~vlm.68. In this manner both the kings were throwing their enchanted weapons against each other, and found them equally quelling and repelling one another.

हेति-भार-वरा: सिन्धोश् चक्र-रक्षास् ततो_अम्भसा ।

heti-bhAra-varA: sindhoz cakra-rakSAs tato_'mbhasA |

तृणानि_इव गता: प्रोह्य रथश् च_अस्य_अभवत् प्लुत: ॥69॥

tRNAni_iva gatA: prohya rathaz ca_asya_abhavat pluta: ||69

now sindhu's javelin-bearers and discus-warders were all in the water,

tossed about like grass;

and his chariot was afloat

~vlm.69 The heavy armed soldiers of Sindhu and the captains of his regiments were swept away by the flood, together with the war-cars that floated upon it.

एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे सिन्धुर् अस्त्रं सस्मार शोषणम् ।

etasminn antare sindhur astram sasmAra zoSaNam |

आपत्त्राणकरं दैवं ददौ च शर-रूपिणम् ॥70॥

ApattrANakaram daivam dadau ca zara-rUpiNam ||70

then in the middle of all this,

sindhu empowered the astra called shoshana the Parcher,

that dries the heavens!

and he shot him to heaven in full power

~AS. At the same time sindhu recalled the drying weapon zoSaNa astra, the divine one that protects from water and mounted it as an arrow. The idea of an astra is twofold: First you recall/recite a mantra and then transfer its power on some kind of projectile to be delivered at the right spot. Warriors often use arrows, sages used shafts of grass or even sprinkled water!

~vlm.70. At this moment, sindhu thought upon his anthydrous weapons (soshanástre-thermal arms), which possessed the miraculous power of preserving his people from the water, and hurled them in the air.

~AS. Your second line translation needs to be amended thus: "the heavenly weapon which protects from floods, and executed it using an arrow." This reference to "arrow" is spurious, all of them seem to be executed by an arrow. Tradition says that the mantra used is the main power, it can be loaded onto an arrow or a darbha or even a handful of water. Some material needs to be essential, however. Nobody just recites a mantra and hopes to get results. Indeed there a story of one agniveza whose water pot was emptied by his enemy and hence could not use his astra!!

शशाम_अम्बुमयी माया तेन यामा_इव भास्वता । ये मृतास्_ते मृ ता एव बभूवु: शोषिता भुव: ॥७१॥

zazAma_ambumayI mAyA tena yAmA_iva bhAsvatA | ye mRtAs_te mRtA eva babhUvu: zoSitA bhuva: ||71

that

astra

swallowed

all of that watery mAyA

—

like darkness swallowed by the sun

and there the dead were seen as truly dead

they lay withering on the parching earth

~vlm.These absorbed the waters like the sun sucks up the moisture of the night, and dried up the land and revived the soldiers, except those that were already dead and gone.

अथ मूर्ख-रुषा तुल्यस्_ताप: सम्तापयन्_प्रजा: । जजृम्भे झर्झर-आकीर्ण-वन-विस्तार-कर्कश: ॥७२॥

atha mUrkha-ruSA: tulya:_tApa: samtApayan prajA: | jajRmbhe jharjhara-AkIrNa-vana-vistAra-karkaza: ||72

just like the anger of fools,

heat

like a fool's anger

burned the people

—

they lie about the forest

beside their swords

~vlm.72 Their heat chased the coldness like the rage of the illiterate against the learned, and made the moist ground as dry as when sultry winds strew the forest land with dried leaves.

~AS. The heat comparable to the mad anger of foolish people (pervasive and all consuming) spread out burning people, filling forests with rumbling roars.

कचत्-कनक-नि:स्यन्द.सुन्दर-अङ्ग-च्.छविर्_दिशाम् । आसीद्_राज-वर-स्त्रीणाम्_इव_आलेपो_ऽङ्ग-सम्गत: ॥७३॥

kacat-kanaka-ni:syanda.sundara-aGga-chavi:_dizAm | AsIt_rAja-vara-strINAm iva_Alepa:_aGga-samgata: ||73

the four directions

are

adorned with sparkling gold

and so are the painted limbs of the King's women

awaiting him

in their beds

~AS. The beautiful body complexions of all the directions was like the anointment of the royal women.

तेन घर्म-मयीं मूर्च्छाम् आजग्मुस् तद्-विरोधिन: ।

tena gharma-mayIm mUrcchAm Ajagmus tad-virodhina: |

ग्रीष्म-दाव-अनल-उत्तप्ता मृदव: पल्लवा इव ॥74॥

grISma-dAva-anala-uttaptA mRdava: pallavA iva ||74

now there was fainting from heat-stroke,

and those thus.stricken by the heat

became like tender sprouting buds

withered by fiery summer winds

~vlm.74 It put the soldiers on the opposite side in a state of feverish fainting, like when the tender leaves of trees are scorched by the warmth of a wild fire in summer heat.

विदूरथो रण-उद्रेके तावत्_"क्रेङ्"कारम्_आततम् । कोदण्डम् कुण्डली.क्Rत्य पर्जन्य-अस्त्रम्_अथ_आददे ॥७५॥

vidUratha: raNa-udreke tAvat "kreG"kAram Atatam | kodaNDam kuNDalI.kRtya parjanya-astram atha_Adade ||75

the battle rages.on

vidUratha,

bending his bow with a creaking

"kreng"

let.loose everywhere a stormcloud of astra.Missiles against his foe

~vlm.75 Viduratha, in his war-like rage, took up his bow, bent it to a curve, and let fly his cloudy arms on his enemy.

उदगु: पङ्क्तयो_अब्दानां यामिन्य इव सञ्चिता: ।

udagu: paGktayo_'bdAnAm yAminya iva saJcitA: |

तमाल-विपिन-उड्डीन-संरम्भाद् अम्बु-मन्थरा: ॥76॥

tamAla-vipina-uDDIna-saMrambhAd ambu-mantharA: ||76||

वामना वारि-पूरेण गर्जन-उद्दाम-संचरा: ।

vAmanA vAri-pUreNa garjana-uddAma-saMcarA: |

महिम्ना मन्थर-अशेष-ककुम्-मण्डल-कुण्डला: ॥77॥

mahimnA manthara-azeSa-kakum-maNDala-kuNDalA: ||77

columns of clouds spread-out,

as.if night had accumulated

in an upflying tamAla-grove shaking heavy with branch-water,—

bent by the flooding rain the clouds roared unrestrained,

roving the earth everywhere,

making the quarters ring

~vlm.76 They sent forth columns of clouds as thick as the dark shades of night, which flying upward like a forest of dark tamara trees, spread a shelter heavy with water on high. 77. They lowered under the weight of their water, stood still by their massive thickness, and roared aloud in their circles all over the sky.

ववुर्_आवलित-आसारा मेघ-डम्बर-भेदिन: । कीर्ण-सीकर-नीहार-भार-उदारा: समीरणा: ॥७८॥

vavur_Avalita-AsArA megha-Dambara-bhedina: | kIrNa-sIkara-nIhAra-bhAra-udArA: samIraNA: ||78

the winds blew whirling torrents that crashed thru covering clouds

scattering rain and showers and fog

blew on the moving winds

~vlm.78 Then blew the winds dropping the dewdrops from the icy store they bore on their wings. Showers of rain fell quickly from the clouds collected on high.

प्रपुस्फुरु: सु.सौवर्ण-सर्प-आपत्-सरण.उपमा: । विद्युतो दिवि दैव्य-स्त्री-कटाक्ष-वलना इव ॥७९॥

prapusphuru: su.sauvarNa-sarpa-Apat-saraNa.upamA: | vidyuta: divi daivya-strI-kaTAkSa-valanA iva ||79

now there is flickering

—flashing—

a shifting course of silver snakes

—

the lightning-bolts shift like the glance of a heavenly women

~vlm.79 Then fiery lightning flashed from the clouds like golden serpents, or rather like side glances from the eyes of heavenly apsara nymphs.

जुघूर्णुर्_गर्जन-उच्छून-प्रतिश्रुद्-घन-कन्दरा: । दिशश्_चलित-मातङ्ग-सिम्ह-ऋक्ष-रव-घर्घरा: ॥८०॥

jughUrNu:_garjana-ucchUna-pratizrut-ghana-kandarA: | diza:_calita-mAtaGga-simha-RkSa-rava-ghargharA: ||80

they roll.about

—the elephants—

they

toss their swollen necks

rumble like stormclouds

to a roar

a horde

of lions and bears

~vlm.80 The roaring of the clouds rebounded in the mountainous caverns of the sky, and the quarters of heaven echoed with the sound like the hoarse noise of elephants, the roaring of lions, and the growling of tigers and bears.

महा-मुसल-धाराभि: पेतुर् आसार-वॄइष्ह्टय: ।

mahA-musala-dhArAbhi: petur AsAra-vRRiShTaya: |

कष्ट-टंकार-कठिना: कॄइतान्तस्य_इव दॄइष्ह्टय: ॥81॥

kaSTa-TaMkAra-kaThinA: kRRitAntasya_iva dRRiShTaya: ||81

on the Great.Mace-Bearers company there fell,

also,

rainbursts that drum woeful "tum, tumm" sounds on a bare shovelblade,

the glances of

krtAnta the Terminator

~vlm.81 Showers of rain fell in floods with drops as big as mallets and with flashes of lightning that threatened like stern glances from the god of death. ⁸²Huge mists rose up in the form of vapors of the earth and were carried aloft into the sky by the heated air. They seemed like demons rising from the infernal regions.

उदभूत्_प्रथमम् बाष्प उष्णो_ऽनल-निभो भुव: । पातालाद्_अभ्र-वृन्दानाम् युद्धाय_इव_आत्त-विभ्रम: ॥८२॥

udabhUt_prathamam bASpa uSNo_'nala-nibho bhuva: | pAtAlAd_abhra-vRndAnAm yuddhAya_iva_Atta-vibhrama: ||82

first arose a hot teary earthy sky-wind,

—clustered with clouds from Hell—

where

having gone to-war

the victors

roam the battlefield

~vlm. Huge mists rose up in the form of vapors of the earth and were carried aloft into the sky by the heated air. They seemed like demons rising from the infernal regions.

ततो निमेष-मात्रेण प्रशेमुर् मृग-तृष्णिका: ।

tato nimeSa-mAtreNa prazemur mRga-tRSNikA: |

परबोध-रसापूरैर् यथा संसार-वासना: ॥83॥

parabodha-rasApUrair yathA saMsAra-vAsanA: ||83

then, after only a moment,

this whole confused illusion stopped—

as vAsanAs of saMsAra

subside in the Supreme Essence

~vlm.83 The mirage of the warfare ceased after a while, like worldly desires subside to rest upon tasting the sweet joys attending on divine knowledge.

आसीत् पङ्काङ्क-म् अखिलं भूमण्डल-म् असंचर-म् ।

AsIt paGkAGkam akhilam bhUmaNDalam asaMcaram |

पूरित: पूर्ण-धाराभि: सिन्धु: सिन्धुर् इव_अम्बुना ॥84॥

pUrita: pUrNa-dhArAbhi: sindhu: sindhur iva_ambunA ||84

it was all a great mud-puddle!

Earth became blocked,—

like sindhu River congested by the bursting clouds,

King sindhu too was overwhelmed

~vlm.84 The ground became full of mud and mire and was impassable everywhere. The forces of Sindhu were flooded by the watery deluge, like the Sindhu River (Indus) or the sea.

वायव्यम्_अस्त्रम्_असृजत्_पूरित-आकाश-कोटरम् । कल्पान्त-नृत्त-सम्.मत्त-रटद्भैर्_अवभीषणम् ॥८५॥

vAyavyam astram asRjat pUrita-AkAza-koTaram | kalpAnta-nRtta-sam.matta-raTadbha:_avabhISaNam ||85

he launched vAyavya, the Windstorm Missile

that filled the hollow of the sky with the cavorting of the Doomsday Dance

—

and fearsome winds

~vlm.... like the bhairava spirits on the last day of resurrection.

ववुर्_अशनि-निपात-पीडित-अङ्गा दलित-शिलाशकला: ककुम्_मुखेषु ।

vavu:_azani-nipAta-pIDita-aGgA: dalita-zilAzakalA: kakum_mukheSu |

प्रलय-समय-सूचका भटानाम् क्Rत-पटु-"टां"क्Rत-टङ्किन: समीरा: ॥८६॥

pralaya-samaya-sUcakA: bhaTAnAm kRta-paTu-"TAM"kRta-TaGkina: samIrA: ||86

they blow

over the fallen bodies pounded by slingstones that fell like thunderbolts

the winds blow

over crushed mountains

everywhere

it's

Doomsday Night

the thudding "tumm" of warriors' spades

blown in the wind

oॐm

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