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MADHURAVIJAYAM
 
deposits in them exuded the most agreeable odour. The
numberless kadamba trees there were in full blossom.
 
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numberless kadamba trees there were in full blossom.
 
35. The king was also attracted by his beautiful
ladies whose curling locks were decorated with the

ladies whose curling locks were decorated with the
evening-blossoming maālati flowers. Their clothes were

scented with agaru fumes, and they were sweet-
smelling like musk.
 

smelling like musk.
 
36. The king's love passion was very much excit-

ed by gem-set pavilions, by fragrant breezes wafting

the smell of kutaja and ketaka flowers and by the
ētaka flowers and by the
musical notes of intoxicated peacocks.
 

 
37. The advent of the cloudy season enacted the

role of a 'romance' confidant to the king in the night

time, as it made even the newly married shy girls

embrace him at every sound of thunder-murmurings.
 

 
38. Then came the autumn, the jester that made

lotus-clusters laugh, the thief that stole Indra's bow

(rain bow), and the treasury officer that set his seal

on the mouths of peacocks.
 

 
39. The season resembled a lion in dispersing the

elephant-like clouds. His face was the sun. The kaśas

were his manes and the blossoming China roses, his
red eyes.
 

red eyes.
 
40. It was no empty saying that the sun and the

moon are the eyes of Vișnṣṇu. Now that He has woken

up from sleep, these two also opened in their proper

splendour.
 

 
41. By reason of the rise of the brilliant Agastya-

star, the waters were cleared of their muddy condition,