Asta - AncientVoice

Mbh.3.162.8220	And the intelligent ones call that monarch of mountains by the name of Asta.
Mbh.5.110.5047	Hither is that mountain called Asta which is the cause of the evening twilight, and which daily receiveth the sun lovingly turning towards it.
Mbh.6.55.2964	Yon Sun, robbing in every way the vision of the whole world, is about to reach that best of mountains called Asta
Mbh.7.96.4400	SECTION XCVIII Sanjaya said, When the sun turned in his downward course towards the summit of the Asta hills, when the welkin was covered with dust, when the heat of the solar rays abated, the day began to fade fast.
Mbh.7.131.6557	Striking against the earth, those arrows looked resplendent, like the blazing rays of the sun while proceeding towards the Asta hills.
Mbh.7.142.7171	O sinless one, the sun is quickly proceeding towards the Asta hills.
Mbh.7.142.7189	How, O son of Radha, when thou art alive will Phalguna succeed in slaying the ruler of the Sindhus before the sun goes to the Asta hills?
Mbh.7.143.7402	The sun is about to get at the mountain of Asta.
Mbh.7.145.7592	At that frightful time when confusion was everywhere, the thousand-rayed sun, dimming his rays, entered the Asta hill.
Mbh.7.198.11060	As at the close of the night, O king, all the luminaries run towards the Asta hill, even so the fiery shafts of Aswatthaman all began to proceed towards Bhimasena's car.
Mbh.8.18.751	Cut off with a crescent-shaped arrow by the diadem-decked Partha, the head also of Danda fell down on the Earth from the elephant's back, and covered with blood it looked resplendent as it lay like the sun dropped from the Asta mountain towards the western quarter.
Mbh.8.34.1651	Himavat and Vindhya mountains became its Apaskara and Adhishthana; and the Udaya and the Asta mountains were made the wheels of that car by those foremost ones among the gods.
Mbh.8.90.5656	Crushed by that excellent weapon, possessed of splendour, and blazing with the fire of the snake's poison, that beautiful and much-liked diadem of Partha fell down on the earth like the blazing disc of the Sun from the Asta hills.
Mbh.8.90.5724	Karna also shooting repeated showers of arrows, looked, with those arrows constituting his rays, like the sun coursing towards the Asta hills, with disc bright with crimson rays.
Mbh.8.91.5861	The head also of that commander of the Kaurava army, endued with splendour equal to that of the risen sun and resembling the meridian sun of autumn, fell down on the earth like the sun of bloody disc dropped down from the Asta hills.
Mbh.8.91.5872	Indeed, the severed head of Karna looked beautiful like a mountain summit loosened by a tempest, or a quenched fire after the sacrifice is over, or the image of the sun after it has reached the Asta hills.
Mbh.8.91.5874	As the Sun, while proceeding towards the Asta hills, retires taking away with him all his rays, even so that shaft of Arjuna passed out, taking with it Karna's life breaths.
Mbh.9.16.944	Then thy son and the valiant ruler of the Madras, like the Udaya and the Asta hills, received those assailants.
Mbh.10.1.34	The Sun then reached the Asta mountains, and Night, the mother of the universe, came.
Mbh.12.25.1103	If the Time does not come, the Sun does not appear above the horizon, nor, when the Time for it does not come, does he repair to the Asta hills.
Mbh.12.152.9067	At this hour when men are about to close their daily toil, the Sun is retiring to the Asta hills.
Mbh.12.168.10129	Meanwhile the sun set behind the Asta hills.
Mbh.12.318.19800	Having said these words unto me, the divine Surya proceeded to the Asta hills.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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