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## Chapter Forty-Two
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**Srakshandha:** Here, this forest is sometimes dense with the finest trees, sometimes covered with many kinds of grass. Sometimes it is filled with fearless herds of deer, sometimes it is dense with very frightened black deer. ||47||
**Chandi Chhandha:** Sometimes it is filled with trees felled by maddened elephants, sometimes it is filled with groups of new trees. Sometimes it is beautiful with the buzzing of swarms of bees, sometimes it is filled with very sharp sounds. ||48||
**Pramanikavritta:** Sometimes creatures wander here and there in fear, sometimes they sit calmly. Sometimes the caves are devoid of water, sometimes water flows from the caves. ||49||
**Totakachhandha:** Sometimes this forest is red, sometimes white, sometimes yellow, sometimes green, sometimes twisted, sometimes still, sometimes with sound, sometimes without sound, sometimes sparse, sometimes dense, sometimes barren, sometimes young and green, sometimes vast, sometimes uneven, and sometimes perfectly even. ||50||
**Janaki, my beloved, see this famous Dandaka forest, like a multitude of actions, it is of many kinds. ||51||**
**Oh, beautiful one, this mountain called Dandaka, with its peaks that fill the sky like a courtyard, is named after this forest, Dandaka. ||52||**
**The sky is covered with the red glow of the high peaks, born of ochre and other minerals, as if it were filled with a multitude of red flowers. ||53||**
**In the caves of this mountain, you can see great flames of medicinal plants, like lamps standing in windless places, destroying the darkness from afar. ||54||**
**Shalini Chhandha:** Here, high waterfalls fall with a great roar, clinging to the clouds. They release drops of water like pearls, clearly mimicking the rays of the sun. ||55||