Book Title: 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 555. The grounds here, with their road-strips hardened by (layers of) soft earth carried by winds every day, become even on (occasions of) whirl-winds (väoli) covered with a very thin (layer of) dust. 62 556. Here in the vicinity of lakes ( uvasaram ) the foot-tracks, which grow green grass (haria) with the trickle of drops of water from the (bodies of) boars, have this grass bent under the heavy load (gārava) of lumps of mud dropped (on the grass by the boars shaking it off). 557. The lands, deeply splitting (cracking), have their broken patches massed up and upheaving, with clumps of Musta grass (growing on them), clustering, drying, elongated and thin. 558. Here the portion of the sky above, in this windless region bordering on the forest, indicates (the fact of) a herd of elephants (enjoying) their sleep, made brownish, as it (the sky) is, by the ground-dust hurled (uggahia) (in the air) by the exhalations from their trunks. 559. Here are these rat-infested tracts, become uneven on account of their holes having been shattered (visaṭṭa), as the loose (jajjara) ground had its surface depressed under heavy heaps of earth dug up (by them) and with a few barren (ujjada) branches of sun-plants (akka) left over (on them). 560. The locations of trees here, although remaining (only) as long columns of ashes (bhui), are to be ascertained by their elongated condition (of shapes), the fire (of conflagration) having sufficed for their prostration sideways (in the form of ashes). 561. The forest here attracts (attention) with its (pockets of) vacant, levelled land (thalailla) in between, as the (old) trees become sick (rugga ) ( dried up) in course of time, while the circling groves of young trees formed (subsidiary, small) planted parks. (uvavaṇāamta). 562. The mountainous, marshy forests here, cool with the formation of shade on account of the thickness of creeper-canopies, have grassy patches of turmeric (haliddi) with their healthy (abundant) growth. 563. The bordering lands here look lovely with hard, black stems of the foliage, (appearing) as if they (lands) have assi Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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