[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Drama (rūpaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays) › [Nagananda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda) › 1.21 # Nagananda 1.21 Nāgānanda 1.21 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.21) tāpāt tatkṣaṇaghṛṣṭacandanarasāpāṇḍū kapālau vahan saṃsavaktairnijakarṇatālapavanaiḥ saṃvijyamānānanaḥ / sampratyeṣa viśeṣasiktahṛdayā hastojjhitaiḥ śīkarai- rgāḍhāyallakaduḥsahāmiva daśāṃ dhatte gajānāṃ patiḥ // > Jímútaváhana (looking upwards). > The adorable thousand-rayed one has reached the zenith; for see, the lord of elephants with pallid cheeks, their sandal-juice instantaneously dried off by the excessive heat, as he fans his face with the breezes of his broad ears, his chest all wet with the drops falling from his trunk, endures a state of existence hard to be borne even by the fainting Bignonia. > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World ### [1.21.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.21.p1) iti prathamo 'ṅkaḥ / ### [1.21.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.21.p2) dvitīyo 'ṅkaḥ ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.1.p87) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.1.26) — Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.other.nagananda-2.1.16-2) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.21) · Pramāṇa