Nagananda 1.11
Nāgānanda 1.11
- Language
- Sanskrit
1.11
vāso 'rthaṃ dayayaiva nātipṛthavaḥ kṛttāstarūṇāṃ tvaco
bhagnālakṣyajaratkamaṇḍalu nabhaḥsvacchaṃ payo nairjharam /
dṛśyante truṭitojjhitāśca baṭubhiormauñjyaḥ kvacinmekhalā
nityākarṇanayā śukena ca padaṃ sāmnāmidaṃ paṭhayate //
Jímútaváhana.
You conjecture rightly. This is an ascetic grove. The bark of the trees is stripped off for clothing, though not in too wide strips, as if out of pity for them. The pure water of the cascade has broken fragments of old waterpots just visible at the bottom; and here and there appear the broken girdles of munja grass cast off by the young Brahmans; whilst a verse of the Sáma Veda is recited by a parrot, who has learnt it from constantly hearing it. Come, then, we will enter and look about us.
Translations (1)
- Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World — Palmer Boyd 1872, English
Linked texts (3)
- Nāgānandanāṭaka — Sanskrit
- Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit
- Sūktimuktāvalī — Jalhaṇa (Devagiri), Sanskrit