Verse 19
The lake· Verses 15–19
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15rich with the beauty of night lilies and blue lotuses and kahlara and the hundred-petalled flower, loud with bees drunk on it and with sweet-voiced birds. 16It was thick with swans and karandava ducks, with the birds that call cakra and with cranes; and the water fowl, the koyasti and the datyuha cried there in flocks. 17Its water was astir with lotus dust as fish and turtles moved through it, and it was fringed with kadamba, cane, reed, nipa and vanjula, 18with kunda and kurubaka and asoka, sirisa, kutaja and ingudi, kubjaka, golden jasmine, naga, punnaga and jati, 19with mallika and the hundred-petalled flower, with madhavi and jalaka and the rest; and other trees grown on its banks made it lovely, bearing in every season.