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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shattered by the growth of trees (over dilapidated houses), while columns of smoke are now confined only to the habitations of cowherds with a few crows loitering in between" (608). “Here is a grove of trees nestling by the hillside, where in a vacant ( solitary temple), Siva's tirga is bathed by a religious man coming (by chance ) to the village and which, stinking of leaves ( dry and rotten), has a pool of water (Kunda ), deep and bluish" (609). "Squatting on their feet, chin uplifted and their mouth-line extended-such a slumbering pose of lions here looks charming, (especially) as the sharp tips of thir claws protrude under pressure (on paws :) " (622). The wide, reverberating echo of the loud, tinkling sounds of cymbals beaten, takes a long time to quieten, being halted and sent back through a series of surrounding ) caves " (623). The tracks of boars shot by arrows are here pursued by the hunters, marked, as they are, with seal-like drops of blood looking brighter further and further” (627). “Here on the mountain-ridges, monkeys go on licking their own sweet-smelling hands, thickly smeared with the juice (toddy) of the mountain-palms cracked by the force of winds" (633). “And now the mountain Kailāsa passes by-Kailasa, where the orb of the moon, on account of the snowy frost, fades away, feeling distressed, as it were, by the grief at the memory of his friend) Cupid's downfall" (638). "Here on its ridges, even during nights, the blazing twigs of highly ( potent) medicinal herbs, enveloped in their own jewel-like lustre, cannot be clearly distinguished, although the cobras (nearabout) have been repelled by their (anti-venom) smell ” (638). “The mountain-caves here (illumined) by the light radiating from the sages in still meditation and concentration ( of the mind ), become dark as soon as their meditation ceases” (642). “Fapry are the evenings when grassy regions are cooled by the (falling)