41. The floral plants growing in the caverns of the hills, and about the precincts of the house, covered the ground every morning, with heaps of flowers to the depth of the heels. 42. There were the _chouri_ kine and antelopes, grazing in one part of the forest; and also the tender fawn sleeping on the bed of grass under the _gunja_ groves. 43. There were the young calves lying on one side, and shaking their ears to drive the flies away; which were fluttering on their faces, and upon the milk exuding from the sides of their mouths. 44. The rooms were stored with honey, which had been collected by driving the bees from the hives; the gardens were full of flowering _asokas_ (_asoka Jonesia_); and their rooms were painted with lacdye. 45. The winds moistened by the showers of rain, had given the arboretum to bloom, and the blooming buds of Kadamba, overhung like a canopy, the beds of green grass below. 46. The _Ketaka_ (_keya_) arbour was blooming white by removal of its weeds, and the water-course was gliding along with its soft murmuring tune. 47. The winds whistled in the windows of the caves, and the clouds rested on the roofs of the mountain tops; the ponds were brimful of water, and filled with lotuses like so many lightsome moons. 48. The green arbour cast its cooling and undivided shade upon the ground, where the dew-drops trembling on the blades of grass, glistened like twinkling stars in the azure sky. 49. The trees incessantly dropped down their ripened fruits, and dried flowers and leaves of various sorts, like showers of snow on the whitened ground. 50. There some clouds were seen to hang continually over the household compound, like the _chirinti_ (or kulína) girls, that never forsake the abode of their parents; while there were others hovering over the roof of the house, and flashing in lightenings that supplied the place of lights. 51. The altar here, re-echoed to the loud roaring of the winds, confined in the caverns of the mountains; and the temple there, was graced by the twittering swallows and parrots, that alighted upon it in their numerous flights. 52. Soft breezes were moving slowly, loaded with the fragrance exhaled by the sleepy flowers (in the evening), and gently shaking the leaves of trees as they passed along the lawn. 53. There the ladies were attentive to the prattling and playful parrots and partridges, and here they listened to the melodious notes of the _Kokila_, responsive to the jarring crows on the branches. 54. The palma and tamála trees were loaded with fruits, and the forest trees were entwined by creepers, which waved their leafy palms around them. 55. There were the tender ivy creepers, clasping the branches on one side, and the fragrance of the efflorescent _Kandala_ and _silindhra_ plants, exhaled on the other. The tapering _tála_ and _tamála_ trees rising as high as spires, and a cooling breeze was blowing amidst the flower plants in the gardens.