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8. Orchard of golden tembili* lime, orange, beli^ mora,% gird,§ 



and mi mango ; 

 Adjoining grove of indi,\\ palol,% diwul** ?m,ff and sal ;H 

 And garden of sandal, b6dUi,§§ with flowers of jasmine, lotus, 



lily, and fragrant champak :— 

 Such the famed splendour of Saman forest named of noble 



Saman-devi. 



9, That day seven goddesses offered celestial vestures and flowers ; 

 The god empowered, with both hands offered flowers of Indra's 



tree ; 



Golden kadupul lotus of the Naga world divine Nagas offered : 

 Thenceforth continuously all people of the world worship 



Samanala. 



III. — At close of Work. 



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1. I came intent on singing to while the livelong day — 

 Say when again, my comrades, ye'll listen to my lay. 

 If khi9folk now stand by us, all trouble will seem light, 

 And in Maitri Buddha's feast with one accord unite. 



2. With sport and jest full varied our pilgrim path we cheer, 

 Hark! the band before us shouts sddus echoing clear : 



The palace -shrine who beautify, to crowds the land gives birth, 

 Saffragam's fair temple, the frontal-mark of earth ! 



3. As surge the waves of ocean, the thronging lines go by, 



Their hair-knots bound in circles dark, like stars in midnight sky; 

 Like jewels gleam the torches, adown the four-spread lane, 

 The patron god in howdah rides, as in a wedding train. 



* The king-cocoanut. 

 f iEgle marmelos. 

 % Asclepias acida. 

 § Mangifera indica. 

 || The wild date-palm. 

 *D The trumpet flower (Bignonia 

 suave olens.) 



** Eeronia elephantum. 

 ff Bassia latifolia. 

 \X Shorea robusta. 

 §§ A kind of cocoanut. 

 j| [| Michelia champaca. 



