Abounding in lotuses growing in charming water reservoirs, adorned with the sweet notes of the cranes. Its stony slabs beautified with he sitting Kinnaras and Apsaras, all its trees rubbed everywhere by large elephants with their trunks. Frequented by the Vidyadharas, full of many gems, infested by snakes of virtuous poison and glowing tongues. Looking at places like a heap of collyriums. Such was the Himalayas where he (the king) arrived. That foremost of men practised there terrible asceticism. He lived on only fruits, roots and water. One thousand celestial years passed away and then that great river Ganga in her embodied form appeared before him.