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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________________ 74 Gaüdavaho 662. The same interior (halls) of houses (bhavanocchamgā) with their top (roof) structures gone away (demolished) and the foreparts (pabbhāra) of the walls standing, as they were, inclined outwards (ovatta), now look like waterless ( dry) big wells. 663. The same market-places (or picture galleries ), which (rested ) on pillars studded with such precious piles of gems, now (boast) of the glory ( vihava) of only the hood-jewels of cobras freely moving about. : : 664. Here, indeed, at the time in the rains is that city with a ring of huge heaps of loose earth at the place of the city's location, with pieces of gems and corals shining in different parts where they happen to be embedded. : 665. Those places, where the cities were founded (ņivesa ) (and established ), although (situated ) far off, appear to be near enough, with the cupolas (domes-vidamka) and arches of temples and ramparts ( sāla ) emerging in full (and clear ) view on account of their dustless condition. 666. The empty spaces (ovāsa) inside the houses, with ups and downs (thaüţia ) in places of the lost granaries, caused by coarse husk and dust, show up deep and hollow holes (for one who would search for underground wealth. 667. The fields here with furrows of ploughs (sīrāgama), (levelled up ) with an overgrowth of vegetation in time and now looking deep green, ( are covered ) with thickets of thriving sunplants (mamdāra) due to the richness of the soil. :: 668. Looking up on raised toes ( unnamti) as it were, to the rise of dawn (kallam ) in these low-lying ( sunken).( sāvasāda ) tracts full of Karabha plants, the directions stop here, as it were, giving out the fragrance of lotuses. 669. Here in the parks (uvaniggama) are these swing-courts underneath the trees, the (swing) ropes having snapped ( vocchea), the knot left over ( tied) on the boughs where grass has grown thin and old. ... 670. Here are outlying lands on (city) borders where (structural) monuments commemorating the glory of) of past kings, collapsing, are reduced to fine reddish ( brick) powder, (their existence ) now to be inferred from old reptiles ( crawling about ). Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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