Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
returned in numbers to their place. Hearing which,
the Asura despatched through Maya-Vidya armies
after armies without any intermission. But these
were repulsed and killed completely by the Devas.
Sambara became greatly infuriated at these
disastrous results and so created through his
Mayavic power Dama, Vyala and Kata. These had
„broad shoulders fit to bear the weight‟ of
Mahameru on them.. They were not subject to the
bond of Vasanas and were devoid of desires or
egoism. They knew neither death nor life, neither
pleasures nor pains, neither victory nor defeat,
neither waging war nor retreating. They were
therefore incapable of defeat and were able to put
an end to their antagonists through the discharge
of arrows. Fully convinced of their invulnerability,
Sambara living in Patala, gathered together all his
hosts living over hills, ocean and earth and sent
them along to reinforce these three Mayavic
personages. The countless hosts sent by Sambara
sallied forth like so many hills walking on their
legs or as if the ocean full of fishes overflowed the
land or the Kalpa came to an end. Similarly did the
Devas march out in great numbers. Both the armies
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