Canto 2: Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa ()Chapter 91: Bharadvāja’s Hospitality to Bharata, His Army and FamilyText 2.91.69
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Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa
Chapter 91: Bharadvāja’s Hospitality to Bharata, His Army and Family
Text 2.91.69
वाप्यो मैरेयपूर्णाश्च मृष्टमांसचयैर्वृताः।
प्रतप्तपिठरैश्चापि मार्गमायूरकौक्कुटैः॥
vāpyo maireya-pūrṇāś ca mṛṣṭa-māṁsa-cayair vṛtāḥ
pratapta-piṭharaiś cāpi mārga-māyūra-kaukkuṭaiḥ
vāpyaḥ = wells; maireya-pūrṇāḥ = filled with maireya; ca = and; mṛṣṭa-māṁsa-cayaiḥ = cooking the flesh of; vṛtāḥ = surrounded; pratapta-piṭharaiḥ ca api = by hot lakes 9; mārga-māyūra-kaukkuṭaiḥ = deer, peacocks and dogs [appeared].
Wells filled with maireya and surrounded by hot lakes cooking the flesh of deer, peacocks and dogs [appeared].
1 Technical note: niṣādādi-tṛpty-artham . . . gajādi-bhakṣyāṇi nirdiśann āha vāpya iti.
NOTE. This was food for the niṣādas, elephants and so on.1