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When the king was shampooed by the rubbing beneficial in four ways-agreeable to bones, flesh, skin and hair-and when his fatigue was removed, he left the gymnasium -hail.
62. Having left it, he went to the bathing house. Having gone, he enters the bathing-house. Having entered ic, in a delightful bathing-pavilion charming with round perforated windows latticed with pearl strings and with the ground-floor decorated with designs of different kinds of jewels and precious stones, on a bathing-stool inlaid with designs of varieties of jewels aud precious stones, he sat down comfortably, and bithed himself with water scented with flowers, with water, with perfumes, with warm water, with scared water, and with pure water in accordance with an excellent health-giving method of bathing. When this healthy excellent bathing combined with many kinds of hundreds of auspicious marks ( on the body for warding off evil ) was over, he dried his body with a long-haired, very soft, scented coloured towei, put on new valuable excellent garments, rubbed his body with fresh fragrant autta Gośīrşa, ( a superior kind of sandal-paste ), and anointed himself with sanctific - garlands and decorating pigments. He pui on ornaments of jewels en gold, fitiy adorned himself with weel-arranged necklaces of three strings, half-necklaces ( of nine strings ) and necklace of three strings, a pendant hanging down ( from the neck ) and a loin-girdle. He put on ornainents for neck, for fingers and charming ornaments for hair. His arms were made rigid by. excelleat bracelets and armlets He had splendour of excessive beauty. His face was lighted up by ear-rings and his head by a diadem. His chest, covered with necklaces, delighted well (the beholders ). His fingers looked yellow by his finger-rings. He put on a well-arranged cloth upper garment hanging like a pendant. He put on glittering, well-made well-jointed, excellent, beautiful ST Vīra Valayas, Armlets ( indicative of pride of heroisun ) made of spotless and valuable jewels, gold, and precious stones of various kinds by clover artisans. What more! The king was ornamented and decorated like the age
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