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Bhujyu against some of his enemies in the distant island, who, being afterwards shipwrecked with all his followers on the ocean, "where there is nothing to give support, nothing to rest upon or cling to," was rescued from a watery grave by the two Asvins in their hundred-oared galley.[1] It was in a similar ship that the righteous Paṇdava brothers escaped from the destruction planned for them, following the friendly advice of kind-hearted Vidura, who kept a ship ready and constructed for the purpose, provided with all necessary machinery and weapons of war, able to defy hurricanes.[2] Of the same description were also the five hundred ships mentioned in the Rāmāyaṇa,[3] in which hundreds of Kaivarta young men are asked to lie in wait and obstruct the
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तुग्रोह भुज्युनश्विनोदमेघे रयिं न कश्चिन्ममृवां अवाहाः।
तमूहथु नौभिरात्मन्वतीभिरंतरिक्ष प्रुद्भिरपोदकाभिः॥
तिस्रः क्षपस्त्रिरहातिब्रजद्भिर्नासत्या भुज्युमूहथुः पतंगैः।
समुद्रस्य धन्वन्नार्द्रस्य पारे त्रिभी रथैः शतपद्भिः पलश्वैः॥
अनारंभणे तदवीरयेथामनास्थाने अग्रभणे समुद्रे।
यदश्विना ऊहथुर्भुज्युमस्तं शतारित्रां नावमानस्थिवांसं॥The Rig Veda/Mandala 1/Hymn 116, śloka 3-5. (Wikisource contributor note) - ↑
ततः प्रवासितो विद्वान् विदुरेण नरस्तदा।
पार्थानां दर्शयामास मनोमारुतगामिनीम्॥
सर्व्ववातसहां नावं यन्त्रयुक्तां पताकिनीम्।
शिवे भागीरथीतीरे नरैर्विश्रम्भिभिः कृताम्॥Mahābhārata, आदिपर्व्व। - ↑
नावां शतानां पञ्चानां कैवर्त्तानां शतं शतम।
सन्नद्धानां तथा यूनान्तिष्ठन्त्वित्यभ्यचोदयत्॥Ayodhyā Kāndam.
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