Text 12] The Victory of Hiranyaksa 683

sangttavad rodanavad
unnamayya sirodharam

vyamuiican vividhd vaco
grama-simhas tatas tatah

sangitavat—like singing; rodanaval—like wailing; unnamayya—raising up;
Siras-dharam—the neck; vyamufcan—uttered; vividhah—various; vacah—
cries; grama-simhah—the dogs; tatah tatah—here and there.

TRANSLATION

Raising their necks, dogs cried here and there, now in the manner of
singing and now of wailing.

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kharas ca karkasaih ksattah
khurair ghnanto dhara-talam

kharkdra-rabhasa mattah
paryadhavan varitthasah

kharah—asses; ca—and; karkasaih—hard; ksatlah—O Vidura; khuraih—with
their hoofs; ghnantah—striking; dhara-talam—the surface of the earth;
khar-kara—braying; rabhasah—wildly engaged in;maltah—mad; paryadhavan
—ran hither and thither; varithasah—in herds.

TRANSLATION

O Vidura, the asses ran hither and thither in herds, striking the earth
with their hard hoofs and wildly braying.

PURPORT

Asses also feel very respectable as a race, and when they run in flocks
hither and thither in so-called jollity, it is understood to be a bad sign for
human society.

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