Saturday 5 May 2012

DIVINE FANTASIES AND IDIOSYNCRASIES:BHAGWATMAHAPURAN!
VAHAN [MODE OF TRANSPORT] USED DURING THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE DEMIGODS AND DEMONS:-
*"...there at the shore of the milk ocean,was then,by the gods and demons,to their honor,fought a most fierce battle,O King,with a violence that made ones hair stand on end."
*some rode elephants,some fought from the backs of camels and some other engaged as combatants with red and white faced monkey's,tigers and lions."
*"both parties of fighters faced one another in strange forms,depending the bodies of the water,land and sea animals,they took up as their vehicles:vultures,eagles,hawks,killer whales,monkey's, buffalo,rhinoceroses,cows,bulls,wild cows and red cows, jackals,rats,lizards,rabbits,goats,human beings,black deer,swans and boars."
[Shrimadbhagwatpuran;Skand [canto]-8;chapter 10;Shalok [verse]-5,9,10,11,12; translated from Sanskrit].

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