Gandhamardan - Paradise Poem by Gajanan Mishra

O Gandhamardan
You are really fantastic paradise
You are here in between
Eighty two and fifty four
East Longitude and
Twenty and fifty four
North latitude
You are composed of a
Cluster of hills with
Altitudes varying between
Six hundred and one thousand five
Metres above the sea level.

O Gandhamardan
You are with Bender Butel
Chalidilli Chhatradandi
Potpani Thuta hills and with over
Thousands plants species
Full of medicinal properties
Asparagus racempsus, Celatrus paniculata
Chlorophytum arundinaceum, acostus speciosus
Cureculigo orchioides etc etc
And also several perennial streams
Are with you
You floristic composition
Is realy remarkable in
Diversity and luxuriance.

O Gandhamardan
You are the symbol of Sanjivani
Life saving of all
Hanuman the great grand God
Of India has brought you from
The Himalayas and people say
You are part of that mountains
It is your mythological connection
You are here from Tretaya Yuga
Of Lord Ramachandra.

You are the perennial sources of life
For all with deep forestry, bouxite
Water fresh air and you are really
The paradise specifically Ayurvedic
Paradise of this earth
Presently O Gandhamardan you
Provides direct livelihood to
More than twenty thousand families
And indirectly you caters to livelihood
Of lakhs of families around you.

O my great Gandhamardan you
have the attractive powers and
You attracted different poets
Writers, philosophers saints sages
Physicians etc etc and they all
Praise you a lot as a source of nectar.