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## The Adipurana
In the city, adorned with beautiful decorations and arches on all sides, it shone like the heavens, possessing great wealth. || 222 ||
The courtyard of the royal palace was sprinkled with fragrant sandalwood and adorned with flowers, buzzing with bees. || 223 ||
The bride and groom were seated in the courtyard, and learned priests performed the abhisheka (ceremony of anointing) with golden, jeweled pots filled with sacred water. || 224 ||
At that time, a great sound arose in the royal palace, a cacophony of conch shells and drums, echoing through the sky. || 225 ||
At that auspicious wedding ceremony, there was no one in the inner palace who did not dance with joy and satisfaction. || 226 ||
The dancing girls, the wives of the nobles, and all the citizens of the city showered the bride and groom with blessings, offering sacred flowers and akshata (unbroken rice). || 227 ||
After the abhisheka, the bride and groom donned new, fine silk garments, as radiant as the waves of the ocean of milk. || 228 ||
Then, they went to a beautiful dressing room, facing east, and adorned themselves with the finest ornaments befitting a wedding celebration. || 229 ||
They anointed their entire bodies with sandalwood paste, and then applied a sandalwood tilak (mark) on their foreheads, befitting the occasion. || 230 ||
Next, they adorned their chests with necklaces of large pearls, shining with the brilliance of saffron or sandalwood, resembling a circle of stars. || 231 ||
On their heads, adorned with coiled hair, they wore garlands of flowers, as beautiful as the Sita river flowing near the peak of the Nilgiri mountains. || 232 ||
They wore earrings in their ears, and the radiance of the jewels on their faces brought them great fortune. || 233 ||