Canto 2: Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa ()Chapter 91: Bharadvāja’s Hospitality to Bharata, His Army and FamilyText 2.91.68
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Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa
Chapter 91: Bharadvāja’s Hospitality to Bharata, His Army and Family
Text 2.91.68
बभूवुर्वनपार्श्वेषु कूपाः पायसकर्दमाः।
ताश्च कामदुघा गावो द्रुमाश्चासन्मधुस्रुतः॥
babhūvur vana-pārśveṣu kūpāḥ pāyasa-kardamāḥ
tāś ca kāma-dughā gāvo drumāś cāsan madhusrutaḥ
babhūvuḥ = appeared; vana-pārśveṣu = near the forest; kūpāḥ = wells; pāyasa-kardamāḥ = whose mud were pāyasa; tāḥ ca kāma-dughāḥ = wish-fulfilling; gāvaḥ = cows; drumāḥ = trees; ca = and; āsan = also appeared; madhusrutaḥ = dripping honey.
Wells whose mud were pāyasa appeared near the forest.1 Wish-fulfilling cows and trees dripping honey also appeared.
1 “Wells whose mud were pāyasa” refer to wells which had pāyasa instead of mud at the bottom.
The residents of the forest had turned into these cows as described previously. They were wish-fulfilling, that is, they gave as much milk as one wanted.
In some manuscripts, madhuścyutaḥ appears instead of madhusrutaḥ [without any change in the meaning].