Sri Vasista:
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O Rāma, saying this Bhagwan Brahma vanished. It was like a tide in sea breaking off at the coast.
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Hearing the words of Brahma ‘devas’ went to their places of hiding, like air which carried the sweet fragrance of flowers.
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-4. For sometime they rested in their bright homes like bees inside the petals of a lotus. After that, on an auspicious day, they blew their conches inviting the two of Dāma, Vyāla and Katā to battle.
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This brought the seas of armies of ‘daityas’ resting in ‘patāla’ out to battle. A fierce battle ensued.
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-8.Swords, Mudgaras, discs, gadās’ flew sky high. Various kinds of weapons miracle and mantra – actuated arrows and weapons – flew in all directions. These were created by magic and deceit-power. Their movement was like a river in flood rushing with great noise.
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Even a tough and terrible body like the earth and such looked distressed with the beatings from the battle. Some of the deceitful appearance of the earth was relieved when the battle was thinned. It again came back to a terrible shape – may be the same or a different one.
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-14. The earth was pounded by huge hill-sized arms and weapons. The blood streams were like seas in tide. The long spears stuck into the corpses resembled a forest of tall palm tress. The various weapons – like kunta, arrow, sword, disc etc – when hurled at the enemy were splitting the hills and boulders around and throwing them on the enemy. Soldiers on either side (particularly Dama, Vyāla and Kata) were releasing poisonous beams of light from their eyes. The heat emanating from those beams was like that of twelve suns jumping into the fray at the same time. The entire world was in distress.
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-17. When the Garuda missile (activated by miracle chant) was projected, the entire mid region became full of jets of lava blowing out of volcanoes. World looked like one at the doonas day. The celestial denizens were brought down to earth and the ‘asuras’ were blown up to the sky. With the flaming arrow stuck in their bodies, the warriors on both sides resembled moving boulders-in-flame.
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-22. The blood flowing from the mountain-sized warriors look like sky extending its hand to the earth. The two sides were flying at each other miracle-missiles and arrows creating water showers, showers of boulders and sometimes showers of hand diamonds. It was like throwing red-waters at the elephants at the time of festivals of colours. In spite of grave distress and fatigue due to hand and armed fight, the warriors on both sides did not lose the passion for battle. With their wounded bodies, they were crawling up on to the elephants which are roaring with pain themselves.
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-26. In all this earth was getting all the poundings with flying boulders and missiles striking it hard. With hot winds blowing across, flames flying all over, blood streaming out in river-sized flows the placed resembled the ‘la;[a’ (deluge times).
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-30. The most striking was the battle of illusion and magic. In this the seas, the hills and missiles were of Meru size. The sounds were earth-shaking. The winds were uprooting hills, throwing seas into tide and hurtingly hot melting even stones. Oceans of blood covered the three world. It was frightening even to Indra of future vision. The varied colours and situations of the war resembled the world of cyclic existence.
