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शतादित्यमिवाभाति गगनं गततोयदम् । शिंशुमारोरगगणैर्मीनैरपि च चंचलैः ॥ १-४३-२१

- made the cloudless sky to shine as if it was with a hundred of suns. With the falling and rising of scores of porpoises and reptiles, even with the wriggling fishes - [1-43-21]

english translation

विद्युद्भिरिव विक्षिप्तैराकाशमभवत्तदा । पाण्डुरैः सलिलोत्पीडैः कीर्यमाणैः सहस्रधा ॥१-४३-२२

- the sky became flashy as if flashes of lightning are strewn over it. Spattered innumerably with the whitish froth from the splashes of Ganga - [1-43-22]

english translation

शारदाभ्रैरिवाकीर्णं गगनं हंससंप्लवैः । क्वचिद् द्रुततरं याति कुटिलं क्वचिदायतम् ॥१-४३-२३

- and stippled with the flights of swans, the sky was as though overspread with silver-clouds of autumn. Somewhere Ganga was coursing precipitately, elsewhere sinuously, somewhere else straightly - [1-43-23]

english translation

विनतं क्वचिदुद्धूतं क्वचिद्याति शनैः शनैः । सलिलेनैव सलिलं क्वचिदभ्याहतं पुनः ॥ १-४३-२४

- elsewhere sloppily, somewhere gushingly, and somewhere else her cruise is leisurely and tardily. Somewhere her water repeatedly knocking against her own water - [1-43-24]

english translation

मुहुरूर्ध्वपथं गत्वा पपात वसुधां पुनः । तच्छङ्करशिरोभ्रष्टं भ्रष्टं भूमितले पुनः ॥१-४३-२५

- was recurrently rose upwards only to make nosedive onto earth. As it ( River Ganga ) flounced down ( from heaven primarily ) onto the head of Shankara, and therefrom it coasted down onto the earth - [1-43-25]

english translation