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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Gaüdavaho
on the pools of water, (thickly covered ) with leaves of lotusplants kicked up by the gambolling (uvvatta) fish (underneath ).
521. Here these bordering areas of the banks (of lakes ) where crows fall upon (to feast on) worm-riddled ( kīdailla), dehydrated, flattened frogs and where tiny conch-shells (or snails ) and moss are (gathered in nets) and drawn (to the bank) by fishermen (jālia).
522. The wind here flutters the leaves of lotus-plants, the roots of which are reddish like trunk-tips ( karagga) of elephants and which are slimy (picchila ), having been smeared (phuda) with thickened foam.
523. The lotus-plants here have their lotuses (standing ) at the far ends (peramta) plucked (by people ), the stalks jutting out ( uvvatta) high above the little water (left at the bottom ), while their thin (madaha ) leaves are entangled in grassy patches on the banks.
524. These mountains with forests at the base overridden by clouds, the lakes with vocal birds and woods, void and tranquil, soothe the heart, as it were.
525. Here are sandy stretches (in the beds ) of rivers, soft and smooth (masiņā), the sands being fixed firm in wavy layers of mud, with Kāśa blossoms few and far between.
526. The villages here, situated on the outskirts of lakes, give very light sleep, being harrassed ( uppittha) by the dinning sound-waves of the cries (kallola) of many intoxicated birds.
527. The grassy plots, their first (layer of) grassy growth rendered colourless and soaked (ālumkhana) in mud by the onset of flood, have now put forth fresh tufts of grass coming out (over the old layer ).
528. The marshy tracts ( voccheā) are pleasing and comforting in the evening, when cackling wild cocks have gone out of the lotus-beds and the grassy patches remain lukewarm (thoumhāamta), swarms of mosquitoes having flown away ( ummasaa ).
529. The foot-tracks of rhinoceroses ( vidima) here are (a mixture of) black and white, ( being covered ) with the powder of tiny conch-shells (pounded under their tread ),, the ant-hills