The powerful mountain tribes, having brought as tribute many soft and black Chamaras and many others as white as the moon-beam, and also sweet honey extracted from the flowers growing on the Himalayas and also from the Mechelia champaka, and also garlands of flowers brought from the land of the northern Kurus, and also various kinds of plants from the north, even from the Kailasa (mountain), waited at the gate with their heads down, being refused admittance.
कृष्णाल्ललामांश्चमराज्छुक्लांश्चान्याञ्छशिप्रभान्। हिमवत्पुष्पजं चैव स्वादु क्षौद्रं तथा बहु॥ उत्तरेभ्यः कुरुभ्यश्चाप्यपोढं माल्यमम्बुभिः। उत्तरादपि कैलासादोषधीः सुमहाबलाः॥ पर्वतीया बलिं चान्यमाहृत्य प्रणताः स्थिताः। अजातशत्रोपतेरि तिष्ठन्ति वारिताः॥