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became unfastened due to her shaking heavy or hips, and giving out bells. // 26
While the lovely one fastened the giralle with a tough knot, her nice string necklace of big peares broke. Collecting some of the scattered pearis and leaving others, she moved along when her forot foot stuck in the anklet and she stumbled on the road.//27
As she got up form the fall, ashamed, out of countenance and confused, the white clean upper women garment of that artless slipped down. Rearranging it, she persued the traveller, desirous as she was of reaching him, when breasts tore open the silken choli and came out a bit. // 28
Being ashamed she covered them somehow with her hands as if she covered golden pitchers with lotuses. Then reach the traveller and with a face marked with tear-choked voice and tragic, long eyes, she spoke these graceful words. // 29
Stop, stop for a moment. Fix up steadily your attention this way. Be pleased in your heart for a while and listen to what I say. On hearing these words, the traveller became curious. Neither could be return nor could he take a step foward. // 30
Seeing her, a weapon of love-god, a treasure house of beauty, created by Vidhi as the most excellent, the traveller uttered eight Gathas. // 31.
Her locks, very much curly, like water ripples rivers, and resembling in blackness a swarm of black bees appear beautiful. // 32
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