Verse 25

²⁰Near the sea they saw a very great lake, wide, clear as the mind of a great man, its water still and settled. ²¹It was a mine of lilies blue and red, of lotuses, of white water-flowers and of the blue lotus, and loud with swans and cranes and ruddy geese and ducks. ²²Its creepers and trees had their hairs standing up at the sweet sound of the drunken bees, and the wind made a festival of it, scattering the pollen of lotus-cups through the quarters. ²³Hearing there a music of the gandharvas, lovely and in the manner of heaven, with drums and tabors following it, those sons of the king wondered. ²⁴Just then the best of the immortals was coming out of that lake with his followers, and the servants of the gods were singing to him.

²⁵Seeing him bright as a mass of molten gold, his throat dark, three-eyed, his face gracious with favour, they bowed, and wonder rose in them.