The Race of Sages - Verse 57-63

I shall describe the natural features of all these (Raksasas) 1 : They had round eyes. They were yellowish in colour. They had huge bodies and bellies. They had eight fangs; pikelike ears and hairs standing upright. They had their mouths extending (as if) upto the ears. Some had hair like the Mufija grass. Some had smoke-coloured upright hair. Some had stout heads shedding white lustre. > Some were short-statured. Some had long arms. Some had copper-coloured faces. Some had long (dangling down) tongues and lips. Some had long eyebrows and stout noses. Some were blue-bodied with red necks and majestic eyes. They were terrific. They were excessively terrible-voiced and hideous. They went in groups. They were stout with promi-