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made as if to stand comparison with those sylvan creepers. The domestic peacoks therein, highly pleased with the sounds, resembling the thunderings of clouds, of the drūms beaten always, having multi-coloured plumages, resembling the moveable treasures produced by means of various jewels, possessing evershining tail, having their necks raised up for the sake of giving out crackling notes, play Tāņdava dances very much in accordance with the time of music. In the mansions of that city, white owing to their being covered over with sticking plaster, considering themselves to be the moonlight incarnate, laughing at the abode of gods with their prosperity, possessing topmost parts raised high up, the evenings charming owing to the obstruction of the course of darkness being removed by constantly spreading moonlight, are enjoyed by the lords of Yakşas along with their beloveds. śambara thought that Laxmi, the goddess of beauty, flushed with shame on seeing the bodies, naturally beautiful regarded as most excellent in all the three worlds, of the belles of that city, would certainly throw off immediately the lotusflower held in the hand as a play-thing, remove the particular construction of semi-blossomed Kunda-flowers beset in her curly hair after uprooting her hair. The beauty of the faces of the women residing in that city, rendered white with the pollens of the Lodhra-flowers by themselves again and again, highly appreciating the beauty manifested by the glory of winter-season, made elegant by glittering moon-light in the form of the white lustre of smiles of the women, free from all drawbacks, spotless, would laugh at the beauty of the moon. As the female Yakşas there have put fresh Kadamba-flowers in their luxuriant hair on their heads, and the charming Sirişa-flowers on the ear even when there are ornaments, prepared to their liking, brought forth by the wish-fulfilling trees, any insignificant thing must have been dear to them owing to their being attached to the love for novelties. In the city, as there are lotuses in the hands of ladies,
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| SR No. | 001704 |
| Book Title | Parshvabhyuday |
| Original Sutra Author | Jinsenacharya |
| Author | M G Kothari |
| Publisher | Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 844 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology |
| File Size | 16 MB |