Sarayu River appears under the name Sarjú as a precise geographical marker: an object hurled with great force lands on its farther bank. The passage places the river not in an extended description of its course, but at the point where the action reaches the ground on the opposite side.

The Farther Bank

The text locates the landing on Sarjú’s farther bank, making the river a threshold in the action: the object crosses from the thrower’s side and comes to rest beyond the water. The passage does not identify the object in the lines available here, so the river’s role is clear even where the object’s circumstances are not.

Pastoral Setting

The bank is described through signs of settled, productive land: thousands of cattle graze nearby, beside a well-stocked bullock shed. This detail gives the river crossing a rural setting rather than presenting the shore as empty wilderness. Sarayu River thus serves both as a concrete landmark and as the boundary to a landscape of livestock and provision.