सुमनोभिश्चितांस्तत्र तिलकान्नक्तमालकान् | उत्पलानि च फुल्लानि पङ्कजानि च राघव || ३-७३-२१
Oh ! son of the Raghus, there you will see tilaka trees, night jasmines full of flowers. You will also see blossoming water lilies and lotuses in Pampa. [3-73-21]
Erst there were self-collected sages, the disciples of Sage Matanga, and at one time while they were bringing the forest produce as ritual paraphernalia, they were much wearied by its weight..... - [3-73-23]
- and they were sweating and all of those earthbound strings of sweat-drops that quickly dropped from their bodies were wafted by air onto trees, and on them they reoccurred as strings of flowers, by the merit of the ascesis of those sages. [3-73-24]
Oh ! Raghava, since those flowers have emerged from sweat-drops, they are imperishable, indeed. Though they ( sages ) have left long ago, even now their attendant,..... - [3-73-25]