Resplendent with beauty, it looked like an evening could reflecting the splendour of the sun. It was furnished with an excellent flagstaff of golden colour and beauty. And there sat upon that staff a fierce-looking celestial ape which looked like a lion or a tiger.
नवमेघप्रतीकाशं ज्वलन्तमिव च श्रिया। आश्रितौ तं रथश्रेष्ठं शक्रायुधसमावुभौ॥ तापनीया सुरुचिरा ध्वजयष्टिरनुत्तमा। तस्यां तु वानरो दिव्यः सिंहशार्दूलकेतनः॥