ging palanquin, lay
wondering each observant god. As met in bright divan each
god, and flash'd their jewell'd vestures' rays, The
coruscating aether glow'd, as with a hundred suns ablaze. And
with the fish and dolphins gleaming, and scaly crocodiles and
snakes, Glanc'd the air, as when fast streaming the blue
lightning shoots and breaks: And in ten thousand sparkles
bright went flashing up the cloudy spray, The snowy flocking
swans less white, within its glittering mists at play. And
headlong now poured down the flood, and now in silver
circlets wound, Then lakelike spread all bright and broad,
then gently, gently flowed around, Then 'neath the cavern'd
earth descending, then spouted up the boiling tide, Then
stream with stream harmonious blending, swell bubbling up or
smooth subside. By that heaven-welling water's breast, the
genii and the sages stood, Its sanctifying dews they blest,
and plung'd within the lustral flood. Whoe'er beneath the
curse of heaven from that immaculate world had fled, To th'
impure earth in exile driven, to that all-holy baptism sped;
And purified from every sin, to the bright spirit's bliss
restor'd, Th' etherial sphere they entered in, and through
th' empyreal mansions soar'd. The world in solemn jubilee
behold these heavenly waves draw near, From sin and dark
pollution free, bathed in the blameless waters clear. Swift
king Bhagiratha drave upon his lofty glittering car, And
swift with her obeisant wave bright Ganga followed him afar.'

[Footnote 159: Schlegel supposes the three western streams to be the
Indus, which appears under its real name the Sind, the Iaxartes, and
the Oxus; are not the Sareswatie, or perhaps the Sutlej, under the
name of Sita, and the Jumna meant? Of the eastern branches, it is not
difficult to fix the Burhampooter. Schlegel suggests the Irawaddy, and
the Blue River of China. Why not the Alacananda and the Gogra? The
main stream bears the name of the Bhaghiratha, till it joins the
Alacananda and takes the name of the Ganges.]

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