Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.460

v2.c19.460

'In all parts of the sky there appeared rain-clouds.... They were hanging low, and laden with rain; the soft, deep sound of approaching thunder was heard from them; flashes of lightning adorned their huge and dark-blue summits, and they overspread the sky, approaching nearer and nearer as if to embrace each other with heads and arms.... The rumbling noise of the thunderclaps now resounded on every hand, making the peacocks to utter cries of joy and to dance and pose as if they would praise the clouds.... Then the clouds let loose the streams of rain, falling like pearls freed from their shells. The dust was laid, and a pungent savour (of earth) was spread abroad by the wind that followed with the thunder-shower.... And it was as if the slender figure of Lightning, illumining the sky again and again with her golden yellow showings of light, exhibited her dances and rejoiced in the music of the cloudy orchestra!'