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Nagananda 4.27

Nāgānanda 4.27

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Sanskrit

4.27

asminvadhyaśilātale nipatitaṃ śeṣānahīn rakṣituṃ
nirbhidyāśanidaṇḍacaṇḍatarayā cañcvādhunā vakṣasi /
bhoktuṃ bhoginamuddharāmi tarasā raktāmbaraprāvṛtaṃ
digdhaṃ madbhayadīryyamāṇahṛdayaprasyandinevāsṛjā //

Garuda (looking at the hero).
Speedily will I catch up and eat this Nága, dressed in red garments, who looks as if besmeared with blood, which gushes from his heart that has burst through fear of me. I will first split open with my beak, which is fiercer than the fierceness of a thunderbolt, the breast of this one, who has fallen on the surface of the execution rock, to save the rest of Nágas.

Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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