Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
came into direct encounter like wind facing fire.
Thus it seemed as though the next Kalpa was
already come. Weapons breathing flames came
into contact with human bodies which at once
dropped down dead and began to accumulate like
a mountain. Even mountains began to be tossed to
and fro in the scarlet ocean of blood oozing out of
the lifeless bodies. The angry and deceptive Asuras
approached close their enemy and drove them
away. All the Devas fled the field with a
despondent heart. But the three Mayavic
personages mentioned above went in quest of
them in all quarter: Not being able to trace them to
their places of concealment, the victorious
triumvirs returned from Deva loka to where their
leader was.
Meanwhile all the Deva hosts, ignorant what to do,
re sorted for aid to Brahma seated on his lotus seat.
Having, with true love, paid the homage of due
respects to him, they related to him the atrocities
committed by Sambara flaming like fire and their
utter rout at the hands of the three persons created
by the Asura. Thereupon Brahma meditated and
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