बृहत्संहिता (आचार्य वराहमिहिर - स्थापत्य, खगोल, मौसम व जल विज्ञान)

Adh. XII. Sl. 7] द्वादशोऽध्यायः 149
still possesses the splendour of a lake in autumn with its
waves, lotuses and swans,
He who converted the ocean (the lord of the rivers)
into the sky, as it had white clouds in the form of whales,
stars in the form of gems, the Moon in the form of
crystal gem, the autumnal lustre in the form of the water-
less bed and Ketus or comets in the form of the rays of
the gems on the hoods of serpents,
And he who stemmed the Vindhya Mountain which
was bent upon obstructing the course of the Sun's car-
riage and so had moving peaks, and which was adorned
by the flags hoisted aloft in the form of clothes on the
bodies of the Vidyadharas, who clinging to the shoulders
of their confused lovers eagerly seated them on their own
laps ; which possesses streams inside the caves occupied
by lions whose heads are covered with bees following the
fragrance caused by the tasting of the blood mixed with
ichor on the heads of the elephants and are wearing orna-
mental wreaths of 'Vana' flowers as it were on their
heads ; which was scratching as it were, the firmament
with its uplifted peaks which had the deep sound of
humming of the swarms of the intoxicated bees that were
scattered by the shaking of the trees in bloom by the
elephants and which (peaks) were the abodes of hyenas,
bears, tigers and monkeys ; which is embraced in private
by the Rewa river (Narmada) having the Madana trees
on her banks just as one is embraced in amorous sport by
one's beloved, in whose gardens dwell the Gods and
which is accompanied by sages who subsist on water,
nothing, roots and air ; such was the Vindhya, when he
was stemmed by Agasthya. Listen ! ye, now, to the
rising of that sage.