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[ 41. 22. wards Ratna-dvipa. He reached the island named Ratna-dvipa. There the herd of deer. being attracted by the souud of pleasant music begun by women of serpents and Gandharvas, paid attention to it and stood motionless. There the circle of directions was made fragrant by astringent and fragrant smell of Mustā grass thrown up on the surface of the earth battered by the strokes of the snouts of proud wild boars. It was full of thousands of lakes abounding in naughty royal swans in pure waters made fragrant by the pollen of flowers fallen from the trees on the bank. Its extensive lawns were worshipped as it were by the collections of flowers fallen from the tops of great trees. There all the groves of betel-trees were embraced by the collection of freely growing betel-creepers. There the amorous pleasures were commenced by Vidyādhara couples in the groves of uneven, thickly grown and fragrant Mandāra trees. There the forest of tall sandal-trees dropped down broken on account of being pulled by thick trunks of proud wild elephants. The waters of the sea, there, were laughed at as it were by
