Wide-known by Chitrakúṭa's name,

It rivals Gandhamádan's[329] fame.

Long as the man that hill who seeks

Gazes upon its sacred peaks,

To holy things his soul he gives

And pure from thought of evil lives.

There, while a hundred autumns fled,

Has many a saint with hoary head

Spent his pure life, and won the prize,

By deep devotion, in the skies: