[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) › 5.19 # Nagananda 5.19 Nāgānanda 5.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.19) merau mandarakandarāsu himavatsānau mahendrācale / kailāsasya śilātaleṣu malayaprāgbhāradeśeṣvapi / uddeśeṣvapi teṣu teṣu bahuśo yasya śrutaṃ tanmayā / lokālokavicāraṇagaṇairudugīyamānaṃ yaśaḥ // > Garúda (to himself). > Ah! How, indeed, was it done? This, then, is that Jímútaváhana, prince of the Vidyádharas, whose fame I have repeatedly heard sung by the hosts of bards who traverse Lokáloka, sung on the slopes of Meru, in the caves of Mandara, on the table-land of Himavat, on mount Mahendra, on the peaks of Kailása, even on these heights of Malaya, and in the various caverns of the mountains that bound the world. Of a truth, I am plunged in a vast quagmire of iniquity! > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.18) - [Next: 5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.20) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5) ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.5.p73) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.5.19) — Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.2.85-2) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.19) · Pramāṇa