jlfO HINDU RELIGION 



: itbie of GHAToTCACHi. LoDg had he reserved Ihis beauteous and spFendid Jart j ihs gift of IkdraT 

 in exchange for the bresst.plale and ear-rings of his birth, and created for the destructbn of Arjuna. 

 Fleetwas the stmng-girt arrow in its ffight, tremulous like the tongue of a wild elephanf , and f:it i as tho 



Bister of death. Whea Carn'a raised the weapon the Racsuasa knew his peril, and bulky as ihe Vindhv ■ 

 iotonntaia prepared to fly. Carn A raised it witli both iiis hands: the etherial beings shouted aloud ()te * 

 winds roared and pealing thunders shock the heavens. The arrow reduced the Phnntom to ashes incl 

 pkrcing the heart of Ghat'o'tcacha forced a passage through his body, andthen wiaging its glittering 

 course aloft, took its place amongst the constellations: with battered arn>s an'd'mangled body'' darkling 

 sts a cloud or mountain, precipitous the monsterfell; but ere he reached the ground he made a last expi, 

 Sitag ciBFort for hts Pan d'awa allies, and expanding his enormous bulk he'covered, And^ crushed on his 

 descent a difision of our fdrces, thus faithful to his friends even in his death. Then shouted our chiaCs ^ 

 and the drums and clarions echoed the sound. The Cauravas h«slened to behold their champion, anij 

 CAaji A was lauded by our host as was Imdha by the Mdruts oa his victory over Vritra''sur, Then? 

 thej brought your son in triumph to the field rejoicing in the fall of his foes. The Pan'dVvas wit- ' 

 nessmgGHAToTCACHAlike a fallen mountain prostrate oa the earth were filled with sorrow anta :. 

 iismayj and their eyes were suffused wiih tears. 



