Verse 40

⁴⁰It is full of thickets of holy trees and creepers, with holy beasts and birds calling in them, rich in fruit and flower of every season, splendid with its rows of woodland. ⁴¹It rings with flocks of drunken birds and the wandering of drunken bees, with drunken peacocks swaggering like actors, and it calls out with drunken cuckoos. ⁴²It is decked with kadamba, campaka, asoka, karanja, bakula and asana, with kunda and mandara and kutaja, and with young mango trees. ⁴³It is sweetly noisy with karandavas and plavas, with swans, ospreys, water-fowl, cranes, cakravakas and cakoras. ⁴⁴And so too it is thick with deer and boars, porcupines, wild oxen and elephants, with cow-tailed monkeys and lions and apes, mongooses and musk deer.

⁴⁵Entering that best of fords with his daughter, the first of kings saw the sage sitting there, having poured his offering into the fire.