Parshvabhyuday

Author(s): Jinsenacharya, M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi

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full whereby He would become steady. The wives of those, gone abroad, would infer the arrival of their lovers on seeing the Nipa-flowers, green and brown owing to the half-grown filaments. He should visit the forest region situated in the interior part of the Vindhyas, the mountaineers wherein would be able to infer His approach on seeing mushrooms grown there and the plantaintrees, with their first buds manifested on account of the discharge of the drops of His water, grown in the marshes.
The travellers would become capable of knowing immediately His unseasonable approach on hearing in the forests the cries of the delighted peacocks, on seeing their charming dances with their plumages expanded, and on smelling the fragrant odour of the earth in the burnt-up forests. The bees with their eagerness roused to action, flying collectively into the interior parts of forests on account of their being attracted by the fragrance of flowers, the antelopes rushing in the bowers on account of their being attracted by the fresh sprouts shooting forth, the Cātaka birds rushing towards the burnt up forests, would be ascertaining, in accordance with their capacity, the path of Him discharging drops of water. On seeing the balance of His mind effected for meditation, noticed then, impenetrable by hundreds of strategies devised by śambara himself to disturb it, he looked up to it as merely dulness of Him who, under the disguise of a cloud, would be desirous of going very speedily with a very great courage for the sake of his beloved. He doubted that He would delay on every mountain, become fragrant on account of Kakubha-fiowers, having the regious of its peaks washed off by fresh clouds, resounding with the cries of the dancing peacocks as if offering Him welcome, bearing very high up on its top waters of springs for His feet and that He, accepting reception on every mountain, borne on their heads like a dear friend and greeted with notes rendered into words meant for welcoming by peacocks ascending the tops of mountains through