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Canto: VI
Slokas 1 to 69: The water-sports of the Prince.
1. Like Indra always attended by celestial
nymphs, the king with his ladies moved to his pleasure
garden which resembled Nandana, to gather flowers.
2. The ladies followed the king as he began to
move to the garden, with their jewelled girdles sound-
ing. The sight of it was like a line of humming bees
moving in the wake of the southern gale.
3. The path which the ladies took was lined with
red lac-dye dripping from their feet, and it seemed as
if a cover of tender leaves was being laid on the ground.
4. The glances of ladies, radiating blue, white and
red hues, seemed to line the sky with blue lilies, white
lilies and red lotuses.
5. The sounds of jewelled anklets of ladies, as
they fell on the king's ears, produced the impression in
his mind, that it might be the noise of the stringing of
Cupid's bow.
6. Mutual conversations held by the ladies, as
they followed the king, were heard in varying notes of
sweetness.
7. "Oh ye beautiful friend, go slowly after the
rest lest you injure your feet by treading on the pearls
dropped down on the way from their broken garlands."
8. "Don't you wake up, oh ye lotus-faced, the
sleeping swans, with the sound of your jewelled anklets.
If you do, they would crowd round your feet mistaking
Slokas 1 to 69: The water-sports of the Prince.
1. Like Indra always attended by celestial
nymphs, the king with his ladies moved to his pleasure
garden which resembled Nandana, to gather flowers.
2. The ladies followed the king as he began to
move to the garden, with their jewelled girdles sound-
ing. The sight of it was like a line of humming bees
moving in the wake of the southern gale.
3. The path which the ladies took was lined with
red lac-dye dripping from their feet, and it seemed as
if a cover of tender leaves was being laid on the ground.
4. The glances of ladies, radiating blue, white and
red hues, seemed to line the sky with blue lilies, white
lilies and red lotuses.
5. The sounds of jewelled anklets of ladies, as
they fell on the king's ears, produced the impression in
his mind, that it might be the noise of the stringing of
Cupid's bow.
6. Mutual conversations held by the ladies, as
they followed the king, were heard in varying notes of
sweetness.
7. "Oh ye beautiful friend, go slowly after the
rest lest you injure your feet by treading on the pearls
dropped down on the way from their broken garlands."
8. "Don't you wake up, oh ye lotus-faced, the
sleeping swans, with the sound of your jewelled anklets.
If you do, they would crowd round your feet mistaking