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First Study: The Story of Anand]
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Their hair, as soft as threads emerging from a flower bud, bright, abundant, fine, smooth, fragrant, beautiful, reaching the shoulders, sapphire blue, indigo blue, and jet black, was like a swarm of happy, well-nourished bees, shining brightly on their head. The skin on which their hair grew was radiant like pomegranate blossoms and gold, red, pure, and smooth. Their upper head, the most excellent part, was dense, full, and umbrella-shaped. Their forehead was free from any marks of boils, pimples, or wounds, smooth, beautiful, and pure, resembling a magnificent half-moon. Their face was gentle like a full moon. Their ears were beautifully joined with their face, with the proper shape and proportions, making them look very beautiful. Their cheeks were fleshy and well-nourished. Their eyebrows were beautifully arched like a slightly drawn bow, thin like a line of black clouds, black, and smooth. Their eyes were like blooming white lotuses. Their eyes were developed like lotus petals, white, and adorned with eyelashes. Their nose was long, straight, and elevated, like the beak of a Garuda. Their lips were like a polished coral band or a bimba fruit. Their teeth were like pieces of a spotless moon, purer than the purest conch shell, cow's milk, foam, kunda flower, water drops, and lotus stalk, white. Their teeth were unbroken, complete, unblemished, strong, free from cracks, continuous, close together, smooth, shining, well-formed, and beautiful. Their many teeth appeared as one row of teeth. Their tongue and palate were red like gold heated in fire and washed with water. Their beard and mustache were never growing, well-divided, very light, and possessed an extraordinary beauty. Their chin was fleshy, well-formed, strong, broad, and wide like a cheetah. Their neck was four finger-breadths wide, with three folds, and elevated like a fine conch shell. Their shoulders were full and broad, like those of a strong buffalo, pig, lion, cheetah, bull, and a fine elephant. Their arms were round and long, strong, pleasing to look at, with strong wrists, well-joined, harmonious, distinct, thick, solid, stable, properly bound with tendons, and round like the city gate. Their long arms were like the outstretched body of a Naga king, ready to obtain the desired object. Their hands, from the wrist down, were elevated, soft, fleshy, and well-formed. They were marked with auspicious signs. When their fingers were joined, no gaps were visible. Their palms were reddish. Their fingers were strong and soft. Their nails were slightly reddish like copper, thin, white, pleasing to look at, smooth, and soft. Their palms had auspicious lines of the moon, sun, conch, wheel, and clockwise swastika. Their chest was bright like the surface of a golden rock, broad, flat, properly fleshy, wide, and vast. It bore the mark of the Srivatsa swastika. Due to the fleshiness or fullness of their body, their spine was not visible. Their body was radiant like gold, pure, beautiful, free from blemishes, and free from disease and defects. It possessed all 1008 marks of a perfect man. The sides of their body...