Verse 16

⁹All of them set their hearts on her, gods and antigods and men alike, their thoughts carried off by her form, her generosity, her youth, her colour and her greatness. ¹⁰Great Indra brought her a seat, huge and wonderful; and the best of rivers, each of them in a body, brought clean water in golden jars. ¹¹The earth brought all the herbs for the anointing, the cows the five pure things, and the spring the two months Madhu and Madhava. ¹²The sages set the anointing in order as the rule has it; the gandharvas sang what brings good; and the dancing women danced and sang. ¹³The clouds made the drums sound, the mrdanga and panava and muraja and anaka and gomukha, and the conches and flutes and lutes, with a great uproar of it.

¹⁴Then the elephants of the quarters anointed the goddess Sri, the true one, with the lotus in her hand, out of full jars, while the twice-born spoke the words of the hymns. ¹⁵The sea brought her a pair of yellow silk garments, and Varuna the Vaijayanti garland, with the bees on it drunk with its honey. ¹⁶Visvakarman, the lord of creatures, brought ornaments of many kinds; Sarasvati a necklace; the unborn one a lotus; and the snakes two earrings.