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towards, me, who was rolling in bed in the absence of my darling, like yama's stroke./173
Due to the presence of those women who moved about sporitng with their men, the banks of the lakes appeared charming. Children and youths were playing. The tabor was struch in each and every house.//174
Boys dancing in a circle roamed in the streets playing upon Sandarī. The beds have becoming charming due to young girls. In each and very house.// 175
Lamps are placed during the Dīpāvalī night. Held in hand they resemble like crescent moons. The houses are adorned with lamps. The women put on their eyes with a pin the soot of these lamps. //176
The women put on black garments with wavy patters and crooked designs. the round breasts were besmeared attractively with musk.//177
Every limb was besmeared thickly with sandalpaste. It was like sprinkling poison with his arrows by the Love-god. Flowers worn on heads decorated them. this resembled a half-moon on the gate of the dark cloud.//178
The betal-roll containing a lot of camphor was placed in the mouth which due to redness resembled the sun rising at the down. Bodies are adorned with swift rush. The tinking of small bells is heard from the beds.//179
In this way some fortunate women sort, but I passes the nights miserably. In each and every house
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