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# Nagananda 5.14

Nāgānanda 5.14

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.14)

kurvāṇo rudhirārdracañcukaṣaṇairdroṇīrivādrestaṭīḥ  
pluṣṭopāntavatāntaraḥ svanayanajyotiḥśikhāśreṇibhiḥ /  
sajjadvajrakaṭhoghoranakharaprāntāvagāḍhāvaniḥ  
śrṛṅgāgre malayasya pannagaripurdūrādayaṃ dṛśyate //

> Śankhachúda.  
> I will now follow Garuda. (Looking in front.) Yonder, afar off, I see the enemy of the Nágas, on a pinnacle of Malaya, making new gulleys in the mountain-side, as he rubs his gory beak. The woods around are all uprooted and burnt by the streaks of flaming fire from his eyes, and the ground is hollowed round him by his dreadful adamantine claws.  
> — 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.5.p59) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.5.14) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.other.nagananda-2.2.80-2) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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