Setubandha

SR No.: 001384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 812
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 14 MB

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SETUBANDHA of the quarters, and enjoyed the day lotus beds, forced their way into the night lotus blossoms.
46. The mass of moonbeams, entering through the windows, and stretching lengthwise on the sapphire floors, seemed to be the long and pendent trunk of an elephant of the quarters, taking in water from a lake.
47. When the massive darkness resembling a herd of elephants was routed by the moon, a white lion as it were, the long shadows of the mansions looked like the muddy tracks of their feet.
48. Destroying the darkness in the hollows, and diminishing the length of the shadows, the moon ascended the sky, with its orb mounting sideways, and its receding rays sweeping out of the windows.
49. Entering through the wide windows, and resembling scattered powder, the moonlight, with its clear lustre set off by the yellowish curtains, faded as it blended with the flare of the lamps.
50. Closing by degrees (during the day), and partly opening (at nightfall) on account of maturity, the night lotus, filled with dense9 moonlight, seemed to quiver, with the petals expanded by the weight of the rays.
51. The trees, hemmed in by the lunar rays, and rocked at the top by the wind, with the shadows wavering on account of the branches moving to and fro, seemed to swim as they swayed in the current of moonlight.
52. Resembling a vast mass of sandal paste sprinkled with water, the moonlight, blending with the flare of the lamps, and eclipsed at places, seemed to be dotted with holes 10
53. Pervaded by the dense rays, the sky lost its own colour, with the tiny stars invisible, and the moon floating on the flood of its light.
9. Lit. dense enough to be turned over.
10. The areas Tighted by the lamps are fancied as gaps in the expanse of moonlight.