SECTION –CLXXXII
(Markandeya-Samasya Parva)
Vaisampayana said, "While they were dwelling
at that place, there set in the season of the rains, the season that puts an
end to the hot weather and is delightful to all animated beings. Then the black
clouds, rumbling loudly, and covering the heavens and the cardinal points,
ceaselessly rained during day and night. These clouds, counted by hundreds and
by thousands, looked like domes in the rainy season. From the earth disappeared
the effulgence of the sun; its place was taken by the stainless lustre of the
lightning; the earth became delightful to all, being overgrown with grass, with
gnats and reptiles in their joy; it was bathed with rain and possessed with
calm. When the waters had covered all, it could not be known whether the ground
was at all even or uneven;--whether there were rivers or trees or hills. At the
end of the hot season, the rivers added beauty to the woods being themselves
full of agitated waters, flowing with great force and resembling serpents in
the hissing sound they made. The boars, the stags and the birds, while the rain
was falling upon them began to utter sounds of various kinds which could be
heard within the forest tracts. The chatakas, the peacocks and the host of male
Kohilas and the excited frogs, all ran about in joy. Thus while the Pandavas
were roaming about in the deserts and sandy tracts, the happy season of rain,
so various in aspect and resounding with clouds passed away. Then set in the
season of autumn, thronged with ganders and cranes and full of joy; then the
forest tracts were overrun with grass; the river turned limpid; the firmament
and stars shone brightly., And the autumn, thronged with beasts and birds, was
joyous and pleasant for the magnanimous sons of Pandu. Then were seen nights,
that were free from dust and cool with clouds and beautified by myriads of
planets and stars and the moon. And they beheld rivers and ponds, adorned with
lilies and white lotuses, full of cool and pleasant water. And while roving by
the river Saraswati whose banks resembled the firmament itself and were
overgrown with canes, and as such abounded in sacred baths, their joy was
great. And those heroes who wielded powerful bows, were specially glad to see
the pleasant river Saraswati, with its limpid waters full to the brim. And, O
Janamejaya, the holiest night, that of the full moon in the month of Kartika in
the season of autumn, was spent by them while dwelling there! And the sons of
Pandu, the best of the descendants of Bharata, spent that auspicious juncture
with righteous and magnanimous saints devoted to penance. And as soon as the
dark fortnight set in immediately after, the sons of Pandu entered the forest
named the Kamyaka, accompanied by Dhananjaya and their charioteers and
cooks."
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