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
2. These (as named before), and many others were reduced to dust and
ashes; and the bravery of the brave, served but to send them like poor
moths to the fire and flame of destruction.
3. Know now the names of the central districts, not yet mentioned by
me, that sent their warriors to the field, in favour of the consort
prince of Lílá.
4. These were the inland forces of Sursena (Muttra), the Gudas
(Gaudas?), and the Asganas (?); the Madhymikas and they that dwell
under sunlight (the tropics).
5. The Sálukas and Kodmals, and Pippaláyanas; the Mándavyas, Pandyans,
Sugrívas and Gurjars.
6. The Páriyátras, Kurashtras, Yamunas and Udumvaras; the Raj-waras,
the Ujjainas, the Kálkotas (Calicuts) and the Mathuras (of Muttra).
7. The Pánchálas (Pánjábis), the Northern and Southern Dharmakshetras;
the Kurukshetriyas, Pánchálakas and Sáraswatas.
8. The line of war chariots from Avanti, being opposed by the arms of
the warriors of the Kunta and Panchanada districts, fell in fighting by
the sides of the hills.
9. Those arrayed in silken attire, being dismantled by the enemy, fell
upon the ground, and were trodden down by the elephants.
10. The bravadoes of Daspura, being hacked in their breasts and
shoulders by the hostile weapons, were pursued by the Banabhuma
warriors, and driven to the distant pool.
11. The Sántikas being ripped in their bellies, lay dead and motionless
in naked field, and wrapped in their mangled entrails, which were torn
and devoured by the voracious Pisáchas at night.
12. There the veteran and vociferous warriors of Bhadrasiri, who were
well skilled in the battle field, drove the Amargas to the ditch, as
they drive the tortoises to their pits.
13. The Haihayas were driving the Dandakas, who like fleet stags were
flying with the swiftness of winds, and all gushing in blood by the
pointed and piercing arrows of the enemy.
14. The Daradas were gored by the tusks of the elephants of their
enemies, and were borne away in floods of their blood, like the broken
branches of trees.
15. The Chínas (Chinese) were mangled in their bodies by darts and
arrows, and cast their tortured bodies in the water, as a burden they
could no longer support.
16. The Asúras, pierced in their necks by the flying lances of the
Karnatic lancers, fled in all directions like the faggots of fire, or
as the flying meteors of heaven.
17. The Sákas and Dásakas were fighting together, by holding down one
another by the hair on their heads, as if the whales and elephants were
struggling mutually from their respective elements.
18. The flying cowards were entrapped in the snares cast by the Dasárna
warriors, as dolphins hiding under the reeds, are dragged out by nets
on the blood-red shore.
19. The lifted swords and pikes of the Tongas (Tonguise), destroyed the
Gurjara (Guzrati) force by hundreds, and these like razors balded the
heads (_i.e._ made widows) of hundreds of Gurjara women. (It is their
custom to remain baldheaded in widowhood).
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