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I, 24. VISHNU AND THE GODDESS OF THE EARTH.
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shape of a boar, this world together with all animate
and inanimate things in it, went away into a place
hidden from the world.
19. ffanardana, the chief of the gods, having be-
come invisible, the goddess of the earth began to
consider, ‘ How shall I be able to sustain myself
(henceforth) ? ’
20. ‘ I will go to Kayyapa to ask : he will tell me
the truth. The great Muni has my welfare under
constant consideration.’
21. Having thus decided upon her course, the
goddess, assuming the shape of a woman, went to
see Ka^yapa, and Kasyapa saw her.
22. Her eyes were similar to the leaves of the
blue lotus (of which the bow of Kama, the god of
love, is made); her face was radiant like the moon
in the autumn season; her locks were as dark as a
swarm of black bees ; she was radiant; her lip was
(red) like the Bandhu^iva flower; and she was
lovely to behold.
23. Her eyebrows were fine; her teeth exceed-
ingly small; her nose handsome ; her brows bent;
her neck shaped like a shell; her thighs were con-
stantly touching each other; and they were fleshy
thighs, which adorned her loins.
24. Her breasts were shining white, firm1, plump,
very close to each other, (decorated with continuous
strings of pearls) like the projections on the fore-
head of Indra’s elephant, and radiant like the gold
(of the two golden jars used at the consecration of a
king).
24. 1 Or ‘ equal in size,’ according to the second of the two
explanations which Nand. proposes of the term ‘samau.’
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shape of a boar, this world together with all animate
and inanimate things in it, went away into a place
hidden from the world.
19. ffanardana, the chief of the gods, having be-
come invisible, the goddess of the earth began to
consider, ‘ How shall I be able to sustain myself
(henceforth) ? ’
20. ‘ I will go to Kayyapa to ask : he will tell me
the truth. The great Muni has my welfare under
constant consideration.’
21. Having thus decided upon her course, the
goddess, assuming the shape of a woman, went to
see Ka^yapa, and Kasyapa saw her.
22. Her eyes were similar to the leaves of the
blue lotus (of which the bow of Kama, the god of
love, is made); her face was radiant like the moon
in the autumn season; her locks were as dark as a
swarm of black bees ; she was radiant; her lip was
(red) like the Bandhu^iva flower; and she was
lovely to behold.
23. Her eyebrows were fine; her teeth exceed-
ingly small; her nose handsome ; her brows bent;
her neck shaped like a shell; her thighs were con-
stantly touching each other; and they were fleshy
thighs, which adorned her loins.
24. Her breasts were shining white, firm1, plump,
very close to each other, (decorated with continuous
strings of pearls) like the projections on the fore-
head of Indra’s elephant, and radiant like the gold
(of the two golden jars used at the consecration of a
king).
24. 1 Or ‘ equal in size,’ according to the second of the two
explanations which Nand. proposes of the term ‘samau.’