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Nagananda 5.22

Nāgānanda 5.22

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Sanskrit

5.22

jvālābhaṅgaistrikagrasanarasacalatkālajihvāgrakalpaiḥ
sarpadbhiḥ sapta sarpiṣkaṇamiva kavalīkarttumīśe samudrān /
svairevotpātavātaprasarapaṭutarairdhukṣite pakṣavātai-
rasmin kalpāvasānajvalanabhayakare vāḍavāgnau patāmi //

Śankhachúda.
Is it not a time for excessive trouble? If my body were preserved from Garuda by the sacrifice of thine, verily it were right that thou shouldst hurl me to a depth lower than the deepest hell.

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

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