Where the gay trees are blossoming:

The home of Varuṇ[730] high-souled lord,

Wrist-girded with his deadly cord.[731]

With ten tall stems, a palm between

Meru and Asta's hill is seen:

Pure silver from the base it springs,

And far and wide its lustre flings.

Seek Rávaṇ and the dame by brook,

In pathless glen, in leafy nook

On Meru's crest a hermit lives