Devimahatmyam: Markandeyi purani sectioL. Poley Impensis Ferdinandi Duemmleri, 1831 - 132 pages |
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Page 118 - Eendra. And now a heterogeneous stream of the concocted juices of various trees and plants ran down into the briny flood. " It was from this milk-like stream of juices, produced from those trees and plants and a mixture of melted gold, that the Soors obtained their immortality. " The waters of the Ocean now being assimilated with those juices, were converted into milk, and from that milk a kind of butter was presently produced; when the heavenly bands went again, into the presence of...
Page 116 - Soors accompanied him into the presence of the Ocean, whom they addressed, saying, ' We will stir up thy waters to obtain the Amreeta.' And the lord of the waters replied, ' Let me also have a share, seeing I am to bear the violent agitation that will be caused by the whirling of the mountain...
Page 119 - Narayan cut off his head, as he was drinking, with his splendid weapon Chakra. And the gigantic head of the Asoor, emblem of a mountain's summit, being thus separated from his body by the Chakra's edge, bounded into the heavens with a dreadful cry, whilst his ponderous trunk fell cleaving the ground asunder, and shaking the whole earth unto its foundation, with all its islands, rocks, and forests. And from that time the head of Raboo resolved an eternal enmity, and continueth, even unto this day,...
Page 120 - Soodarsan, ready at the mind's call, flew down from heaven with direct and refulgent speed, beautiful yet terrible to behold; and being arrived, glowing like the sacrificial flame, and spreading terror around...
Page 116 - Let the Ocean, as a pot of milk, be churned by the united labour of the Soars and Asoors ; and when the mighty waters have been stirred up, the Amreeta shall be found. Let them collect together every medicinal herb, and every precious thing, and let them stir the Ocean, and they shall discover the Amreeta.
Page 117 - Asoors, was like the bellowing of a mighty cloud. Thousands of the various productions of the waters were torn to pieces by the mountain, and confounded with the briny flood; and every specific being of the deep, and all the inhabitants of the great abyss which is below the earth, were annihilated; whilst, from the violent agitation of the mountain, the forest-trees were dashed against each other, and precipitated from its utmost height, with all the birds thereon...
Page 117 - Asoors, a continual stream of fire and smoke and wind, which ascending in thick clouds, replete with lightning, it began to rain down upon the heavenly bands, who were already fatigued with their...
Page 119 - Rahoo resolved an eternal enmity, and continueth even unto this day, at times, to seize upon the Sun and Moon. " Now Narayan, having quitted the female figure he had assumed, began to disturb the Asoors with sundry celestial weapons; and from that instant a dreadful battle was commenced, on the ocean's briny strand, between the Asoors and the Soors.
Page 117 - The Tortoise replied,' Be it so;' and it was placed upon his back. " So, the mountain being set upon the back of the Tortoise, Eendra began to whirl it about as it were a machine. The mountain Mandar served as a churn, and the serpent...
Page 116 - There is a fair and stately mountain, and its name is Meroo, a most exalted mass of glory, reflecting the sunny rays from the splendid surface of its gilded horns. It is clothed in gold, and is the respected haunt of Dews and Gandharvas.