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# Nagananda 4.3

Nāgānanda 4.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.3)

unmajjajjalakuñjarendrarabhasāsphālānubandhoddhataḥ  
sarvāḥ parvatakandarodarabhuvaḥ kurvan pratidhvānitāḥ /  
uccairuccarati dhvaniḥ śrutipathonmāthī yathāyaṃ tathā  
prāyaḥ preṅkhadasaṃkhyaśaṅkhadhavalā veleyamāgachati //

> Jímútaváhana (listening).  
> You are right. An ear-deafening noise arises, made by the repeated flappings of the ears of the sea-monsters as they emerge, and causing the interiors of all the mountain caves to re-echo. Here comes the tide, white with the innumerable shells which it tosses on its waves.  
> — 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.p12) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.4.2.p2) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.1.52) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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