The Story of We-Than-Da-Ya: a Buddhist Legend, Sketched From the Burmese ...
The Story of We-Than-Da-Ya: a Buddhist Legend, Sketched From the Burmese ...
Goss, L. Allan
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Arrived there, you will see to the north- " east, the Mon-sa-lain-ta lake, with its surface covered with the five kinds " of lilies. Thence look again to the north-east, and you will behold " a thick cool wood, whose masses of foliage resemble the piled up layers " of brown cloud, seen during a thunder storm at the beginning of the " rainy season. A wood, at the sight of which the heart is unable to con- " tain itself, so densely covered is it with trees, whose mighty limbs, cov- Digitized by V...jOOQIC 32 THE STORY OF WE-TttAN-DA-VA. " ered with countless leaves and flowers, and bending under their wealth "of fruit, meet overhead, and form a roof; while the ground beneath is " hidden by a fine soft grass, green as the emerald. There may be heard " the voices of the many kinds of birds who live among the trees. Into " that fearful wood, enter without fear, like K^-tha, > the lion king look- " ing for prey, and making your way boldly through the bushes and " grass, follow the narrow and crooked path towards the north-east.
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