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
36. The big Páncha-nadas (Punjabis), and the furious warriors of Kási
(Benares), crushed the bodies of stalwart warriors with their lances
and cudgels, as elephants crush the mighty trees under their feet and
tusks.
37. The Burmese and Vatsenis were cut down on the ground by the disks
of the Nípas (Nepalese); and the Sahyas were sawn down with saws as
withered trees.
38. The heads of the white Kákas (Caucasians), were lopped off with
sharp axes; and their neighbouring prince of the Bhadras was burnt down
by the fiery arrows (fire arms).
39. The Matangajas (of Elephanta) fell under the hands of Káshthayodhas
(of Katiawar), as old unchained elephants falling in the miry pit; and
others that came to fight, fell as dry fuel into the blazing fire.
40. The Mitragartas falling into the hands of the Trigartas, were
scattered about as straws in the field, and having their heads struck
off in their flight, they entered the infernal regions of death.
41. The weak Vanila force, falling into the hands of the Magadha army,
resembling a sea gently shaken by the breeze, went down in the sands,
as lean and aged elephants.
42. The Chedis lost their lines in fighting with the Tongans, and lay
withered in the field of battle, as flowers when scattered in the
plains, fade away under the shining sun.
43. The Kosalas were unable to withstand the war cry of the deadly
Pauravas, and were discomfited by showers of their clubs, and missile
arrows and darts.
44. Those that were pierced by pikes and spears, became as coral plants
red with blood all over their bodies, and thus besmeared in bloodshed,
they fled to the sheltering hills like red hot suns to the setting
mountains (astáchala).
45. The flight of arrows and weapons borne away by the rapid winds,
moved about in the air as fragments of clouds, with a swarm of black
bees hovering under them.
46. The flying arrows seemed as showering clouds, and their feathers
appeared as the woolly breed; their reedy shafts seeming as trees, were
roving with the roar of elephants.
47. The wild elephants and people of the plains, were all torn to
pieces like bits of torn linen.
48. War chariots with their broken wheels, fell into the pits like the
broken craigs of mountains, and the enemy stood upon their tops as a
thick mist or cloud.
49. The multitude of stalwart warriors meeting in the field, had given
it the appearance of a forest of _tála_ and _tamála_ trees; but their
hands being lopped off by weapons, they made it appear as a mountainous
wood, with its clumps of tapering pine trees.
50. The youthful damsels of Paradise were filled with joy and glee,
to find the groves of their native hill (Meru), full of the brave
champions (fallen in the field).
51. The forest of the army howled in a tremendous roar, until it was
burnt down by the all devouring fire of the enemy.
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