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· ŚRI MALLINĀTHACARITRA
. 59 After hearing this, because of affection that was created, King Rukmin at once sent a messenger to Kumbha to seek Malli.
Vasu (97–105) Now Vasu's jīva fell from Vaijayanta and became King Sankha in Vārāṇasī. One day Malli's pair of divine earrings was broken and his goldsmiths were ordered by the king to mend it. “Your Majesty, we cannot mend this divine article,” they said, and the king in a rage expelled them from the city. They went to Vārāṇasī and told King Sankha the whole story as the cause of their exile. They described to the king Malli’s marvelous beauty, which was connected with the business of the earrings, which they had seen entirely uninjured. The moon became a subject of comparison with her face, the bimba with her lips, the conch with her neck, the lotus-stalk with her arm, the middle part of a thunderbolt with her waist, an elephant's trunk with her thigh, a river's whirlpool with her navel, a mirror with her hip, a deer's leg with her leg, a lotus with her hand and foot-(all of) which had been the objects of comparison 44 in the case of others. As a result of the bond of former affection and the hearing of her beauty, Sankha sent a messenger to seek Malli from Kumbha.
Vaiśravana (106–119) Vaiśravaņa's jīva fell from Vaijayanta and became King Adīnasatru in Hastināpura. Now Malli's younger brother, named Malla, had a picture-gallery painted by painters out of curiosity. Among them one excellent painter had the art of painting the body as it was from the sight of one part, creating amazement by his painting. After he had seen Malli's toe through the screen, he painted her figure just as it was with all the limbs and minor parts.
44 104. Upamāna, in contrast with upameya, the subject of comparison.
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