The Gandhamadana mountain was like a grove (owing to tress growing on it) in every way. It was shining, as it were, with cluster of medicinal plants and inhabited by ascetics and the Gandharvas,
कुञ्जभूतं गिरिं सर्वमभितो गन्धमादनम्। दीप्यमानौषधिगणं सिद्धगन्धर्वसेवितम्॥