vanquishing the other. And seizing each other's arms and twining each
other's legs, (at times) they slapped their arm-pits, causing the
enclosure to tremble at the sound. And frequently seizing each other's
necks with their hands and dragging and pushing it with violence, and
each pressing every limb of his body against every limb of the other,
they continued, O exalted one, to slap their arm-pits (at time). And
sometimes stretching their arms and sometimes drawing them close, and
now raising them up and now dropping them down, they began to seize
each other. And striking neck against neck and forehead against
forehead, they caused fiery sparks to come out like flashes of
lightning. And grasping each other in various ways by means of their
arms, and kicking each other with such violence as to affect the
innermost nerves, they struck at each other's breasts with clenched
fists. With bare arms as their only weapons roaring like clouds they
grasped and struck each other like two mad elephants encountering each
other with their trunks. Incensed at each other's blow, they fought on
dragging and pushing each other and fiercely looking at each other
like two wrathful lions. And each striking every limb of the other
with his own and using his arms also against the other, and catching
hold of each other's waist, they hurled each other to a distance.
Accomplished in wrestling, the two heroes clasping each other with
their arms and each dragging the other unto himself, began to press
each other with great violence. The heroes then performed those
grandest of all feats in wrestling called Prishtabhanga, which
consisted in throwing each other down with face towards the earth and
maintaining the one knocked down in that position as long as possible.
And employing his arms, each also performed the feats called
Sampurna-murchcha and Purna-kumbha. At times they twisted each
other's arms and other limbs as if these were vegetable fibres that
were to be twisted into chords. And with clenched fists they struck