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# Nagananda 4.19

Nāgānanda 4.19

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.19)

pratidinamaśūnyamahikāhāreṇa vināyakāhitaprīti /  
śaśidhavalāsthikapālaṃ vapuriva raudraṃ śmaśānamidam //

> Śankhachúda.  
> How should I not see? This cemetery, which affords delight to Garuda, with a snake for his daily food, is like the body of Śiva, with its skulls and bones white as the moon.  
> — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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## Translations (1)

- [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.4.p88) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.4.19) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.1.67) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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