Vasuki Vasuquie : king of the Nāgas. He was used by the gods & Asūras as a rope wound round the mountain Mandāra at the churning of the Ocean.
... strength, a titan’s energy… The ocean is the world-creation. The Mandar mountain is the churning stick. This Mandar mountain is our physical being. This churning goes on in this body too. Vasuki is the rope. Vasuki is the Life-Force. And so using our Life-Force as the rope, the body as our churner or Mandar mountain, we have to churn the ocean of life. The first thing that will come up as a result ...
... halting Bengali, so sweet to hear; the story of Vasuki supporting the earth on its head is as true as our existence — but the vision which revealed it has been lost to us. And the vision through which we observed the modern scientific world, which has evolved through a long process of action and counteraction, is not the whole of man’s vision. Vasuki represents vital power and is a symbol of total ...
... divine thunderbolt among weapons. Among all plants and trees I am the Aswattha, among horses Indra's horse Uchchaihsravas, Airavata Page 363 among the elephants, among the birds Garuda, Vasuki the snake-god among the serpents, Kamadhuk the cow of plenty among cattle, the alligator among fishes, the lion among the beasts of the forest. I am Margasirsha, first of the months; I am spring, the ...
... dismal stair seeks ever light, Attained a dais brilliant doubtfully With flaming pediment and round it coiled Page 128 Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic Carcotaca all flecked with fire... 33 How wanting in the occult atmosphere, though poetically powerful and mythologically significant, is Milton's account of ...
... Rāvana on the battlefield, that javelin, which was deadly as a venomous snake, fell at once on the bosom of Laksmana, who stood, fearless. (34) Flying with great violence, and flaming like the tongue of Vasuki (the lord of serpents), the javelin, which was full of extraordinary splendour, descended on the broad chest of Laksmana. (35) Pierced grievously by the javelin, which had penetrated very deep due... wide open, and vomiting a blazing fire from them, those dreadful arrows darted towards Śrī Rāma alone. (22) By those highly venomous reptiles with flaming coils, whose impact was hard as that of Vasuki (the king of serpents), all the quarters stood covered and the corners between the quarters too stood enveloped. (23) Seeing those reptiles flying (at him) on the battlefield, Śrī Rāma discharged ...
... sight. 61 And, then, like other masters of the epic style, Sri Aurobindo too can make marvellous poetry out of mere proper names: Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic carcotaca all flecked with fire.. . 62 Page 178 but it is no mere catalogue of the names of fabulous pythons and fearsome snakes. Sri Aurobindo has ...
... unbounded; moving then like one Who up a dismal stair seeks ever light, Attained a dais brilliant doubtfully With flaming pediment and round it coiled Python and Naga monstrous, Joruthcaru, Tuxuc and Vasuki himself, immense, Magic Carcotaca all flecked with fire; And many other prone destroying shapes Coiled. On the wondrous dais rose a throne, And he its pedestal whose lotus hood With ominous beauty ...
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