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rior ( suburbs ) be sprinkled ( with water ), swept, and smeared ( with cow-dung etc. ); that in triangular places, in places where three or four roads or more roads meet, in squares (with temples), and in principal streets, the middle of the road and the market streets to shops be sprinkled (with water), cleaned, and swept; that platforms be erected one above the other; that the town be decorated with flags and banners beautified with different colours, that floors be adorned (by smearing them with cow-dung) and walls by white-washing them (with white chalk ); that walls be given impressions of palmg of outstreched Ave fingers ( of the hand ) with started Gosirşa, na superior kind of sandal paste,-with certain 'Sarasa rakte candan, -juicy red sandal,--and with a Dardara -a kind of sandal produced in Southern Mountain named at Dardara; that suspicious vases sineared with sandal-paste be arranged on floors; that pitchers smeared with sandal-paste be well arranged on arched portals and above every door; that large round and long garlands and wreaths of flowers be hung low and high, that collections of juicy fragrant flowers of five colours be arranged on floors, that the town be made very lovely by the fragrant smell of the scented fumes of Black aloe, best Kundurukka í benzoin ). Turuska (Ollbanum ), and burning incense, be exquisitely scented with excellent perfumes and made as it were as a pastile of perfumed substances; that actors, dancers rope-dancers, wrestlers, boxers, jesters (buffoons ), swimmers, story-tellers, ballad-singers, female dancers moving in a circle, watchmen, pole-dancers, beggars showing pantomine pictures, flute-players, Indian-lute players and numerous Tālācara ( who by clapping the hands, beat the time during a performance of music ) be present. Get it done by others; having done it, and having ordered it to be done by others, get thousands of pokes (of vehicles, ploughs etc.) and wooden pestles (for thrashing out rice-grains ) raised upwards (because yoking of bullocks or horses to carts, waggons, ploughs etc, cultivation, husking, and other manual occupations are prohibited during festival days ). Having got them raised upwards, report on the execution of my order. 100
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