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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
your grace, our husband should die so soon in this
war?‟Saraswati replied „As the learned Viduratha
longed after the higher spiritual state, he has to
merge secondless into the supreme Seat. This king
of Sindhu who has come to oppose him will gain
the day over Viduratha in accordance with my
mandates at his propitiation of myself and will
become a king.‟ Whilst these were discoursing
thus, the day broke and the battle field on both
sides became completely void of all its living
contents. Then both the kings alone survived and
took up their bows and filled the sun, the moon,
the quarters and the welkin with showers of
arrows. The arrows hissing flames everywhere, it
seemed as if the end of the Yuga was approaching.
Then Viduratha was left alone without his car and
driver. His bow was unstrung; his diamond
armour was shattered to pieces by his enemy s
semi-circular arrows; all his limbs were rent
asunder and thrown promiscuously; and then
Viduratha‟s trunk came flat upon the ground.
Whereupon the new Lila addressed her of the
white lotus thus, „My husband is about to breathe
his last; please allow me to join my husband,‟
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