Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Scenes in Nature
became specially unendurable, like (the bright heat) of the hotrayed (sun).
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512. The tracts over there appeared to him appreciably charming, perfumed (as they were) by the juicy exudation ( oozing) from deep cuts on Devadāru trees and rendered cool by the fragrance of fresh wines extracted (distilled) (nimmahia ).
513. (Here is) this lake whose shore-lines (are shaded) by the watery Kadamba trees in full bloom and are teeming with flocks of gallinules (jalaramku) chirping sweet in intoxication in the clumps of reeds.
514. It (the lake) holds huge mass of water, having the look of the sea meeting (the lake) for a sight (of his daughter) Laksmi residing in the forests of lotus-beds, having over-run (over-flowed) the ponds of the nether world.
515. Here are some lake-spots with their whitish borderlines, as clusters of lotus-leaves are upturned by the female birds (vihaavahu), the lotuses becoming tattered, stale (jaratha) and standing on stalks jutting out, with very few (virala) leaves (left underneath).
516. The breeze here spreads the fragrant smell of the Jambū trees, which have put forth cool, tiny buds and (spreads) also the honey-juice of lotuses.
517. Here are these tracts that look lovely, as the cries of swans get blended with the sweet, throaty (notes) of the intoxicated geese and the clumps of Nicula reeds are penetrated by female cranes (balāā ).
518. Here the fragrant smell of the crushed knots (of the fibrous lotus-roots), heavily thickened by the juice exuded from their broken bits, saturated with muddy, heavy drops of water flowing down from their apertures.
519. Here the beds of forest lotus-plants, thickly overgrown with an uneven placement of leaves curled upside down (ukkhitta) as they sprouted out one after another, rendering the movement of wild cocks (kukkuha) ( halting and) faltering.
520. Vain cries (of failure and frustration) from ospreys (kurari), hovering over in the sky (to catch fish), emanate here