they became desperate , and resorted to crafts of magic that plagued their whole land with devastation ... when stone was brought to life , taking the form of giants moving to come near the precious stone , to claim it , walls of fire rising as high as mountains would wrap them , and under the intense heat the might of stone would shatter ... and it seemed the yaksha nation had been able to lay a final fortification around omunkashyu , depriving anyone from coming close enough to possess it ... yes rachana , the winds of the devas though they blew the fires asunder could not douse them for good ...