The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)Valmiki
Religion
The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
25. Behold! there the Apsarás eagerly tying their loosened locks, and
advancing with sobbing bosoms to receive the departed warriors, joining
their company in their celestial forms.
26. Ah! receive them says one, who are our guests from afar, on the
banks of the rivers of Paradise, decorated with lotus blossoms of
golden hue, and entertain them with fresh water and cooling breeze.
27. Look! there the groups of weapons, broken into pieces like bones
by their concussion, are huddled in the air with a jingling sound
(kanatkára), and shining as stars in the sky.
28. Lo! the stream of deceased souls, flowing in arrowy currents and
rolling in whirlpools of the flying disks, is rapidly gliding with the
pebbles and stones, flung from the slings in the air.
29. The sky is become as a lake of lotuses with the lotiform heads of
warriors flung aloft in the air, while the flying weapons are floating
like their stalks in it, with the broken swords as their thorns all
around.
30. The flying fragments of the flags, forming the folia of the plants,
and the darts sticking to them, appear as big black bees fluttering
about the flowers moving with the breeze.
31. The arrows sticking to the dead bodies of elephants, are as emmets
on mountain tops, and as timid girls clinging to the bosoms of men.
32. The winds unfurling the curling locks of Vidyádhara females,
indicate their approaching spousals, as the unfolding plumage of fowls
are predictions of success in augury.
33. The lifted umbrellas are shining as so many moons on high and the
moon shining above in the form of fair fame, spreads her light as a
white canopy on earth.
34. The brave warrior, soon after his death, assumes a celestial form
framed by his own merit, as a man in his sleep, attains to a state, he
has imagined to himself in his waking.
35. The flying spears and lances and clubs and disks are hurtling
in the air, like shoals of restless fishes and sharks, moving about
incessantly in the troubled waters of the sea.
36. The milk-white rags of umbrellas, tattered and shattered by arrowy
shafts, are flying as cranes in the crowded air, and appearing as the
disk of the moon broken into a thousand pieces.
37. These waving flappers flying in the air with a hoarse gurgling
(gharghara), seem as the waves of the sea lifted in the air, and
undulating with a babbling noise in the ocean of the sky.
38. Those slips of the flappers and umbrellas, hashed by the slashing
arms, appear as the laurels of glory flung aloft and flying in the
regions of air.
39. Behold ye friends! how these flying arrows and showering spears,
are approaching to us with hits of their spoil, like bodies of locusts,
bearing away their verdant booty in the air.
40. Hearken to the clanking sound of the striking steel, in the
uplifted arm of the armoured soldier, resounding like the loud larum of
the regent of death.
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