Shloka 20
Adhyāya 160: Dikpāla-Cosmography and the Sun’s Kālacakra (दिक्पाल-विश्ववर्णनम् तथा आदित्यस्य कालचक्रम्)
अस्य चोपरि शैलस्य श्रूयते पर्वसंधिषु । भेरीपणवशड्खानां मृदड़ानां च नि:ःस्वन:,पर्वोकी संधि-बेलामें इस पर्वतके ऊपर भेरी, पणव, शंख और मृदंगोंकी ध्वनि सुनायी देती है
asya copari śailasya śrūyate parva-sandhiṣu | bherī-paṇava-śaṅkhānāṁ mṛdaṅgānāṁ ca niḥsvanaḥ ||
山の稜線が交わるところ、この峰の上には音が聞こえる――大鼓（ベーリー）、手鼓（パナヴァ）、法螺貝（シャンク）、そしてムリダンガの響きである。その地は、自らの秘めた音楽によって、目に見えぬ儀礼や集いがここで営まれていると告げるかのようで、山野の中の力ある重要な境界として際立っている。
आर्शिषिण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how certain places are portrayed as liminal and spiritually charged: sound—especially of ritual and signal instruments—functions as a marker of unseen presence, sacred activity, or an omen, urging attentiveness and reverence rather than rash action.
The speaker describes a mountain where, at the meeting-points of its ridges, the reverberation of drums and conches is heard, suggesting an extraordinary or hidden event—often implying divine, ritual, or otherworldly activity associated with that location.