Gaudavaho

SR No.: 001364
Original Sutra Author: Vakpatiraj
Author: Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 638
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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Advent of Rains
389. The sky, partially bespangled with the lustre of deep, greenish rainbows shooting up, looks picturesque, as if it has been made multi-coloured (sabala) by the plumages of peacocks, who have taken to the air in a pleasant mood of satisfaction (as an effect of showers).
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390. (A) As the thick column of dust (rises up), being dug out (ukkhaa) from its base (on the ground) by the speed of the summer gusts of wind, the surface of the earth manifests itself like the flattened skull of a tortoise.
390. (B) The hooded cobras tolerate the first fresh showers, although their rounded hoods smart (dumia) under the smiting streams (falling on them), since their cool touch is very much solicited (maggia) by them on their bodies, being (constantly) heated (payavijjamta) by the fire of their own poison.
391. The rows of ponds look lovely, bringing the mountainranges, whose dust is allayed, much nearer (to them) and darkening the herds of elephants.
392. The lustre of sugar-cane (crops) flashes forth just after the first shower, looking blue as the dust is washed away, although they have gaps formed (viraluddesa) and the twigs are browned off in several spots because of the summer heat.
393. The ponds look lovely, their inside (walls) collapsing although well-built, the water becoming whitish in places where the stalks were rooted and the pink Kaseru grass at the bottom quivering.
394. The forests have their tree (-tops) stirred (ramkholia) by winds from the clouds and with a cool, green verdure ( growing underneath) at the base; the Udumbara fruit becomes insipid (and) tasteless) when beaten by showers.
395. A rest (continued) for a long time is enjoyed by travellers underneath the cool-shaded trees, noisy with (chirping) birds, delightful (as they are) with sandy mounds (nearby) by the side of rivers full of rippling water-streams.
396. The frontiers (of villages), with flocks of intoxicated quails (moving) inside the beds of Himsi creepers, with white patches inside formed by the fresh Varanaka grass, develop a charm fit for observing from house-tops.