क्वचित्कुमुदषण्डैश्च कुड्मलैरुपशोभिताम् | नानापुष्परजोध्वस्तां समदामिव च क्वचित् || २-५०-२१
Here she is decked with hosts of waterlilies and halfblown flowers while elsewhere she looks intoxicated with the pollen fallen from various flowers. [2-50-21]
The river, cleansed of heaps of impurities, appears like a transparent gem. With the trumpeting of the elephants guarding the quarters, mighty, intoxicated, wild elephants and..... - [2-50-22]
- fit to be the vehicles of gods, the interiors of forests on her banks always resounds. It looked like a young woman artistically decked with the best of jewels,..... - [2-50-23]
- surrounded with fruits, flowers, tender leaves or shoots and (flowering) shrubs. It is inhabited by birds and infested with sisumaras (small whales), crocodiles and serpents. [2-50-24]
This sinless, divine Ganga, destroyer of sins who flows from the feet of lord Visnu and by the effulgence (penance) of Sagara's son (Bhagiratha) emerged from the matted locks of lord Siva. [2-50-25]