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75 UPAVANA VINODA
IX. HERE BEGINS THE SECTION CALLED UPAVANA-PRAKRIA—
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GARDEN
83. One should construct garden-houses in a place where the sun's
rays are prevented by a canopy of newly grown leaves, which is adorned
with blooming flowers, rocked by breezes and covered with Mādhavī creepers
bristling with restless black bees.
84. There one should make a swing out of the strong creepers attached
to the branches of two trees, fit for a couple to sit on.
85. In some places within the garden one should, for the purpose of
enjoyment, make (artificially) a nice, beautiful or lovely cave adorned with
branches of trees, leaves and creepers ; or, artificial peaks situated on a mound
covered with trees ; or a variety of caves associated with a good many gems
and precious stones brought from mountains ; or many artificial mountains
adorned with metals of different colours.
86. And there for the purpose of preventing fear from snakes as well as
for the display of beautiful dance one should keep peacocks.
87. In places one should dig ponds, the rows of trees on the bank of
which will mistake their own shadows reflected in the water for their own
bodies.
88. Steps should be constructed in places whereby men can descend
with ease into the vast artificial lake with pleasure boats in it, and on all
sides of the steps flower trees should be planted ; and care should always be
taken to see that ferocious animals do not live in the water of that beautiful
lake, and that the lake is always tenanted by birds like swans Attempt should
be made to intensify the beauty of the lake by having flowers of various
colours, like lotuses, mallikā, blue lotus, etc. in different places of it.
89. In places one should construct artificial lake with such eye-delighting
water in it that the reflection of the moon-beams in it causes the illusion
of a garden in water.
90. One should plant trees bent down under the weight of sweet flowers
on all sides of the white and well-ventilated houses—houses as white as the
peak of the Himalayas—built inside the artificial lake referred to above. And in
places of the garden one should construct circular seats as white as marble,
and should make bowers of plantain trees in places where there is gentle
breeze.
91. In places of the garden deep wells, paved on all sides with stones,
with sweet water in it, should be dug with the water of which all the trees
of the pleasure garden may be well watered.
92 & 93. If the water of the well be polluted, and become pungent, bitter,
tasteless, salty or malodorous, Añjana, Musta, Uśīra, Nāgakeśara, Kośātaki,