10. The birds, Siddhas and seers were sitting and singing outside their homes of mountain caverns; and made the valley symphonious with their celestial strains of holy hymns.
11. The Kinnara and Gandharva concerts, were singing under their bowers of plantain trees; and the greyish and gaysome groves of flowers, were filled with the hum of the whistling breeze.
12. The lord of this romantic country, was the virtuous Lavana, a descendant of king Harish Chandra; and as glorious as his sire the sun upon earth. (This prince had descended of the solar race).
13. His fair fame formed a white diadem to crown his head, and adorn his shoulders with its brightness; it whitened the hills in the form of so many Sivas, besmeared with the hoary ashes upon his tufted head and person.
14. His sword had made an end of all his enemies; who trembled as in a fit of fever on the hearing of his august name.
15. His greatest exertion was devoted to the supportance to respectable men; and his name was uttered like that of Hari by all his people.
16. The Apsara fairies sang with glee the songs of his praise, sitting in the celestial seats of the gods on the tops of the Himalayan mountains.
17. The regent of the skies heard with attention, the songs of the heavenly maids, and the aerial swans and cranes of Brahmá, were responsive to their eulogies with their gabbling cries. (Dhani is the enharmonic diapason of Indian music).
18. His uncommonly magnanimous and wonderous acts, which were free from the fault of niggardliness; were unlike to any thing that was ever heard or seen by any body.
19. His nature knew no wiliness, and it was a perfect stranger to pride and arrogance; he kept himself steadfast to his magnanimity, as Brahmá held himself fast to his rudráksha beads.