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delighted in sporting in them.
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delighted in sporting in them.
21. The king was delighted with the unadorned
faces of his beautiful ladies with the sirișa wreaths
faces of his beautiful ladies with the śirīṣa wreaths
placed on the ear, and pearl-like drops of sweat
appearing on them (the faces).
22. The king could not contain his emotion when
his eyes became transfixed to the braids of hair on the
heads of his charming women, which wafted sweet
fragrance emanating from the evening-blossoming
kutaja flowers with which they were decked.
23. The king got over the heat of the day by
retiring with the choicest ladies to his summer-house
where water-particles sparkling like stars were being
sprayed incessantly.
24. After summer, came winter which the
cataka birds welcomed with delight, and which, by
the flowering of nicula reeds, produced the illusion of
chowries.
chowries.
25. Thick clouds began to appear here and there.
They looked like the sporting pavilions of women called
lightnings; and the thunder that was heard resembled
the sounds of mridanga drums.
the sounds of mridanga drums.
26. The bee-black clouds looked like dark colour-
ed petticoats; flashes of lightning that appeared now and
then glittered like borders of gold-lace, and rain drops
like pearl-countings.
27. The rain-bow with its colours, green, red and
white, shone like the girdle, set with emerald, coral and
pearl of the Beauty Goddess of sky.