Читать книгу Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives (Volume 2) - Aryashura - Страница 65

ing padmas, utpalas, kumudas, pundarikas, saugandhikas, tamarasas, and kahlaras.

22.20

Trees draped with flowers

surrounded the lake’s shore

with bright quivering sprigs,

as if come to gaze at the waters.

Swarms of roaming bees

crowded the lake in disarray,

seduced by lotuses jostled by trembling ripples,

opening their petals as if with a smile.

Over here the lake was adorned by white lilies

sleepless from the touch of moonshine,

resembling splinters of moonlight

fragmented by the canopy of trees.

Over there the shore was decorated by strands

of pollen dust from red and blue lotuses,

pushed there by finger-like waves,

resembling threads of gold.

The bright petals and filaments

of lotuses and water-lilies

made the lake everywhere bear

an expansive beauty like a reverent gift.

22.25

So tranquil and still was the water

that shoals of roaming fish decorating

the lake with their fine colorful bodies

were as visible as if they swam in air.