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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________________ Scenes in Nature 63 milated (lit. drunk) the iron of ploughs (sīrāyasa ) in their every day friction (in the course of cultivation). 564. The sun's reflection, fallen on golden rocks and deeply tinged by the mass of rays (shooting up from them), looks reddishyellow like a ripened palm fruit (freshly ) cut ( nicchalliya). 565. The roads here with their (upper ) surface of soft earth, perforated (chiddiya ) by the heavy particles of dust falling down after having been tossed up (in the air ) by (gusts of), winds appear to be impressed with seals, as it were, by means of sparse drops of water. 566. Here are these lands, loose like dry cowdung (karīsa) and bluish, brownish and rough, strewn, as they are, with faded flowers, (dry ) leaves and pieces of wood (lying scattered ) underneath the trees. 567. Here are forest-regions, resounding with (notes of) peacocks, having Kadamba trees in full blossom variegated with old fruit and rendered cool with the fruit, buds ( kosa ) and doubled (viuma ) foliage of Palāśa trees. 568. These trunks of trees smelling of ichor, (trapsferred to them ) by wild elephants in the act of rubbing their temples, haye their barks torn to shreds ( daliya) with their claws by angry lions, (rushing and) wrathfully raising themselves erect (against them ). 569. The summer nights look charming, the sky above being screened off by a thick film of dust, the fog absent (anavasāa ) during evening time, and the moon's pleasing orb (shining ) in the other half of the sky. 570. Here are these lakes where lotus-plants lie scattered by the elephants plunging (in them, as a result of which ) massive columns of water are raised, the dry ( vasuāa) lotuses floating on the surface. 571. Here the sloping sites of lakes whose banks are brown with bits of lotus-leaves collecting and clinging to the trees, the spaces in between the split (phudia ) leaves being (filled and ) soiled (āvila ) by (the cobwebs of) spiders (lūā). 572. The forests here, being enveloped by the rising tops of ( shooting ) fire-flames slanted ( tamsikaa ) by the ( gusts of) winds, Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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