The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
13. The raging and rapid winds, raised the waves of seas, as high as
mountains; which striking against the rocks on the sea-shore, broke and
hurled them down with tremendous noise.
14. The deep dusty and showering clouds, joined with the wet kalpa
clouds, cast into shade the bright light of the sun; and darkened the
air under their sable shadows.
15. The seas over flowed their beds and banks, and bore down the broken
fragments of the rocks under their bowels; and they became dreadful and
dangerous by the falling and rolling down of the stones with their
current.
16. The huge surges of the sea, bearing the fragments of the rocks in
their bosom, were raised aloft by the cloud rending winds; and they
dashed against and broke down the shores with deep and tremendous noise.
17. The diluvian cloud then broke asunder the vault of heaven, and split
the bosom of the sky with its loud rattling; and then clapped together
its oaklike hands, to see the universal ocean which it had made.
18. The earth, heaven and infernal regions, were rent to pieces, and
tossed and loosed in the all devouring waters; and the whole nature was
reduced to its original vacuity, as if the world was an unpeopled and
vast desert.
19. Now the dead and half dead, the burnt and half burnt bodies, of gods
and demigods, of Gandharvas and men beheld one another in the general
ruin, and fled and fell upon each other with their lifted arms and
weapons, with the velocity of the winds. (It is a dogma of spiritualism,
that tribal and personal animosities &c., continue to the death bed and
in after life, if there is no reconciliation made in the present state).
20. The diluvian winds, were flying as the funeral ashes from the piles;
or as the arjuna humour of choler, drives a person up and down in the
air like a column of ashes.
21. The heaps of stones that were collected in the air, fell forcibly on
the ground, and broke down whatever they struck upon; just as the
falling hailstones from heaven, clatter out of season, and shatter every
thing wherever they fall.
22. The rustling breezes howling in the caverns of mountains, resounded
with a rumbling noise from the fall of the mansions of the regents of
every side.
23. The winds growled with harsh sounds, resembling the jarring noise of
demons; and these blowing amidst the woods, appeared to be passing
through the windows.
24. The cities and towns burning with the demoniac fire, and the
mountains and abodes of the gods, flaming with solar gleams, and their
sparks in the air, flying like swarms of gnats.
25. The sea was roaring with its whirling rain waters on the surface,
and boiling with the submarine fire below; and destroying alike both the
big mountains below, as also the abodes of the gods above.
26. The conflict of the waters and rocks, demolished the cities of the
rulers of earth on all sides; and hurled down the abodes of the deities
and demons, and of the siddhas and gandharvas also.
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