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Matsya Purana 140.65

Matsyapurāṇa 140.65

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Sanskrit

140.65

kāścit priyānparityajya pīr̤itā dānavāṅganāḥ.
nipatantyarṇavajale śiñjamānavibhūṣaṇāḥ.. 65 ..

Some of the women folk threw themselves into the waters of the ocean after forsaking their husbands Many of the women shivered under the destructive influence of fire and exclaimed with bewildering excitement, "O, father! O, husband! O, mother! O, maternal uncle! etc" As the heat emanating from the houses withers the lotuses springing in the ponds thereof, so consumed the fire at Tripura the lotus like faces of those women along with their bodies As the snow during winter eats up the lotus flowers, so did the fire burn the lotus eyes and faces of the beauties in Tripura There was a great uproar when the women flew with their jingling ornaments and cried out in great consternation, on account of the fire produced from the destructive arrow of Śiva—65-69

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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