A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.385

v1.c23.385

Habitats of soma265 are the mountains Himavant, Arbuda, Sahya, Mahendra, Malaya, Śrīparvata, Devagiri and Devasaha, (the mountain ranges called) Pāriyātra and Vindhya, and the Devasunda lake. Candramas, the best variety, floats like (the plant called) haṭha on the water of the great river Sindhu, where it flows down at the foot of the five large mountains lying to the north of the Vitastā; muñjavant and aṃśumant are found in the same locality; the little Mānasa lake in Kaśmīr266 is the place where gāyatra, traiṣṭubha, pāṅkta, jāgata and śakvara occur, as well as other varieties of soma which glow like the moon (29.27–31).