The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)Valmiki
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The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol 4 (of 4), Part 1 (of 2)
Valmiki
Hinduism -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800; Religious life -- Hinduism -- Early works to 1800
18. In one part of it there is the deep infernal cave, containing the
horrible _Kumbhanda_ demons in it; and in another are the beautiful
nandana gardens with the hermitages of holy saints in them.
19. On one part there overhang the eternal clouds, roaring loudly like
furious elephants, while raining clouds are showering on the other.
There are deep and dark caverns <on> one part, and thick forest arbours on
another.
20. The labouring woodmen are felling the trees of wood-lands, inhabited
by evil spirits on one side or the hardy woodmen are driving away the
devils on one side, by felling the woods of their haunts in the
wood-lands; while the other is full of inhabited tracts, and men more
polished in their manners, than the celestials of heaven.
21. Some places are laid desolate by their inhabitants, by the driving
and whirling winds; and others secure from every harm, are flourishing
in their productions (of animals and vegetables).
22. Some where are great and desolate deserts, dreary wastes dreadful
with their howling winds; and in some places there are purling lakes of
lotuses with rows of sounding cranes gracing their borders.
23. In some places, is heard the gurgling of waters, and the growlings
of clouds in others; and in others are the gay and merry Apsaras, turned
giddy with their swinging.
24. On one side the landscape is beset by horrible demons, and is
shunned by all other beings; and on the other, the happy spirits of
Siddhas, Vidyádharas and others, are seen to be sitting and singing by
the side of cooling streams.
25. Somewhere the pouring clouds, caused the ever flowing rivers to
encroach upon the lands; and there were the light and flimsy clouds
also, flying as sheets of cloths, and driven by gusts of winds here and
there.
26. There are the lotus bushes on one side, with swarms of humming bees,
fluttering about their leafy faces; and there are seen the rubicund
teeth of celestial damsels, blushing with the tincture of betel leaves
on the other.
27. In one place is seen the pleasant concourse of people, pursuing
their several callings under the shining sun; and in another the
assemblage of hideous demons, dancing in their demoniac revelry in the
darkness of night.
28. Somewhere the land is laid waste of its people, by havocs and
portents befalling on them; and else where the country is smiling with
its rising cities, under blessing of a good government.
29. Sometimes a dreary waste distracts, and at others a beautiful
population attracts the sight; sometimes deep and dark caverns occur to
view, and at others the dreadful abyss appears to sight.
30. Some spot is full of fruitful trees and luxuriant verdure, and
another a dreary desert devoid of waters and living beings; some where
you see bodies of big elephants, and at others groups of great and
greedy lions.
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