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In the continent of Jambudvipa, in the country of Aparavideha, there was a city named Jayapura; which was the abode of incomparable merits; which resembled the city of gods; which was embellished with parks and gardens; which was the saffron-mark of the whole world. There women were beautiful, with clean clothes, clever in arts and bashful. There men were, castrated so far as others' wives were concerned; blind in finding out weak points of others; dumb in speaking ill things of others; tight-handed in snatching wealth of others; and devoted in doing benevolence to others. There was a king by the name of Purusadatta, who had performed the ceremony of worship on the battlefield by means of the collection of flowers in the form of pearls reddened by profuse blood sprayed out of the heads of enemy's speedy elephants killed by the sharp unsheathed sword. His queen was S'ri-Kanta, the principal queen of the whole harem. He enjoyed with her incomparable pleasures. On this side, the god, who was the lord of Candranana Vimana, having passed his life
