The babblings of mountain rivers and springs, the sweet notes of winged choristers, the gruntings of elephants, the delicious notes of Kinnaras, and the auspicious voice of ascetics singing the Samans, O hero, and various other kinds of music, made that retreat highly charming. The very imagination cannot conceive another hermitage as charming as the one I saw. There were also large houses in that asylum, intended for the preservation of the sacred fire, and covered all over with flowering creepers.
धारानिनादैविहगप्रणादैः शुभैस्तथा बृंहितैः कुञ्जराणाम्। गीतैस्तथा किन्नराणामुदारैः शुभैः स्वनैः सामगानां च वीर॥ अचिन्त्यं मनसाऽप्यन्यैः सरोभिः समलंकृतम्। विशालैश्चाग्निशरणैर्भूषितं कुसुमावृतैः॥