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Matsya Purana 177.28

Matsyapurāṇa 177.28

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Sanskrit

177.28

babhañjurbāhubhirbāhūn dvandvamanye yuyutsavaḥ.
devāstu cāśaniṃ ghoraṃ parighāṃścottamāyasān .. 177.27

The Devas and the demons showed their valour, and arrogance They fought furiously like the clouds emerging from the roaring eastern and western oceans They began to tear down each other as the infuriated elephants rend the mighty mountain trees They also blew several kinds of conches and trumpets The din of their conches filled earth, sky, heavens and the space all round, and so did the noise of the twanging of the bowstrings clashing of swords, clap of the hands etc In the midst of the tumult raised by the kettle-drums etc, the roars of the demons vanished, they began to break the heads of each other, some of them fought duels, some broke other s arms, etc, many of them wrestled, the Devas used their heavy clubs and iron bolts etc.—22-27

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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