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Matsya Purana 139.48

Matsyapurāṇa 139.48

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Sanskrit

139.48

candraprabhāmaruṇasārathinābhibhūya santaptakāñcanarathāṅgasamānabimbaḥ.
sthitvodayāgramukuṭe bahureva sūryyo bhātyambare timiratoyavahāntariṣyan.. 139.47..

Many of them enjoyed themselves in the see-saw when the strings of their ornaments broke and made their girdle of little bells fall down and the jewels to scatter on the ground which began to emit lustre on account of the scattered gems, thus it looked like the Moon surrounded by stars. The nightingale began to sing seated in its cosy foliage on the night lit up by the moon. The God of love exhausting His store of arrows began to walk about in the town of the demons. The moonbeams turned to the west and the night of enjoyment was brought to a close, as if the demons would meet shortly with their discomfiture. The moon first turned red like the Kunda flowers, then looked like the garland of gems, then lost his light, then looked like clouds till at last he became invisible just when the good luck fades away a sick man looks pale. At last Aruṇa, the charioteer of the Sun defeated the Moon. The golden Sun like a disc began to shine fully on the Udayāchala as if He is going to overcome the army that was then in the ocean.—42-46.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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