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very fine turpentine is obtained as an exudation from incisions made on the 

 trunk." The tree is sometimes called Sarala, or straight, on account, no 

 doubt, of its erect shape. It is thus noticed by Kalidasa : 



" Hark ! the gales whistling through the woods of pine, 



Urging to madness all the straining boughs 



That twist and chafe and bend and intertwine, 



The latent flame to wildest fury rouse. 



Singeing the long hair of the mountain cows. 



Quick ! rain a thousand torrents on the crest 



Of the kind hill and cool his burning brows ; 



With wealth of water thou art richly blest, 



And fortune's sweetest fruit is aiding friends distrest. 



V. 55. Griffith's translation of the Meghaduta. 



A very aromatic unguent was said to have been much used by the an- 

 cient Yakshas called Yaksha Kardama or Cerate of the Yakshas, composed 

 of camphor, agallocham, musk and kakkola {Myrica sapida ?) All these 

 ingredients, excepting agallocham, are productions of the sub-Himalayan 

 range. In the Meghaduta, the following verses shew that the Yakshas 

 w^ere in the habit of burning incense or aromatic powders in their bedrooms. 



" Here filled with modest fears, the Yaksha's bride 



Her charms from passion's eagerness would hide ; 



The bold presumption of her lover's hands 



To cast aside the loosened vest, withstands ; 



And, feeble to resist, bewildered, turns 



Where the rich lamp with lofty radiance burns ; 



And vainly whelms it with a fragrant cloud 



Of scented dust, in hope the light to shroud." 



Wilson's translation of the Meghaduta. 



The following extract again shews that the Yakshas must have been 

 great experts in architecture and the art of painting : — 



" And she* has charms which thought but there extols j 



High as thyself her airy turrets soar, 



And from her gilded palaces there swells 



The voice of drums, loud as thy thunder's roar ; 



Thy pearls are rnockt by many a jewelled floor, 



Come, with the glories of thy bow compare 



The varied tints on arch and corridor : 



And, for thy lightning in the midnight air. 



Look in her maiden's eyes and own a rival there." 



Griffith's translation of the Meghaduta, 

 * Alaka, the city of the Yakshas. 



