Those alters were covered with fruits and roots of he forest, and with heaps of flowers. The smoke of clarified butter curled upwards from them. They were graced, besides, with many ascetics possessed of bodies which appeared like the embodied Vedas and with many laymen.
वानेयपुष्पनिकरैराज्यधूमोद्गमैरपि। ब्राह्मणे वपुषा युक्ता युक्ता मुनिगणस्य ताः॥