[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) › 5.28 # Nagananda 5.28 Nāgānanda 5.28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.28) srastānāpādalambān ghanatimiranibhān keśapāśān vahantyaḥ sindūreṇeva digdhaiḥ prathamaravikarasparśatāmraiḥ kapolaiḥ / āyāsenālasāṅgayo 'pyavagaṇitarujaḥ kānane candanānā- masmin gāyantu rāgāduragayuvatayaḥ kīrtimetāṃ tavaiva // > Garuda. > Whatever you order, I, who was lying in a sleep of ignorance, now, awakened by you, have from this day ceased from destroying living beings. Now let the race of Nágas wander happily in the mighty ocean—at times stretching from shore to shore like bridges—at times taken for whirlpools, through the coiling of their bodies—and at times resembling continents, from the multitude of their hoods, large as alluvial islands. Again, let the damsels of the Nágas in yon grove of sandal trees celebrate joyfully this glory of thine, thinking lightly of the fatigue, though their bodies faint with the exertion, and though their cheeks, browned by the touch of the rays of the early sun, seem as if bedaubed with red lead, while their hair let fall to their feet resembles the darkness of clouds. > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.27) - [Next: 5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.29) - [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.p124) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.5.28) — Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.other.nagananda-2.2.104) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.28) · Pramāṇa