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Adipuranam 'Though her ears were adorned with earrings, they were further embellished with ear ornaments like the flowers offered to Saraswati Devi. ||49|| Her forehead was as beautiful as the moon on the eighth day, and it seemed like the mirror of the charming Lakshmi, the consort of Kamadeva. ||50|| Her dark hair, gathered on her lotus-like face, resembled bees, and her eyebrows had conquered the bow-like creeper of Kamadeva. ||51|| Her very dark, crooked, and long hair was so radiant that it seemed as if it had come to the moon to steal its beauty. ||52|| As she walked, her loose braid, with its cluster of flowers, seemed to offer a gift to the earth. ||53|| Her strong body, with its beautiful limbs, seemed like a beautiful image created by the Creator for the creation of women. ||54|| All the women in the world who were very famous, long-lived, had excellent children, were auspicious, and had excellent husbands were inferior to Marudevi, meaning Marudevi was the chief among them. ||55|| She was a mine of virtues, a land of pious wealth, a pure Saraswati Devi, and a scholar without learning. ||56|| She was the ultimate limit of good fortune, the excellent nourishment of beauty, the ultimate delight of friendship, and the excellent path (shelter) of virtue. ||57|| She was the conqueror of the art of love, the flow of the river of the art of knowledge, the origin of fame, and the ultimate limit of the virtue of chastity. ||58|| At the time of Marudevi's marriage, Indra,
1. By listening to the scriptures. 2. By the eyebrows, Vin-50, M, L. 3. With virtues. 4. Rahu. 5. Loose, slack. 6. In going back and forth. 7. As it is the same, so it is well divided. 8. Representative. 9. Having good sons. 10. Having a husband. 11. Saraswati Devi, M, L. 12. Patience, holding. Patience, L. 13. Of friendliness. 14. Obstacle. 15. 'T, B' This reading is according to the book. In place of Kusruti, 'Prasooti: Prasooti:' or this reading. It is also written in the 'T, B' books. 'Prasooti: Kamatattvasya Kalagamasarichchati: Prasootiryashasaam saa aasiit Satiitvasya paraa Dhriti: ||' S, A. 'Prasooti: Kamatattvasya Kalagamasaritsrutih: Prasootiryashasaam saa aasiit Satiitvasya paraa Dhriti: ||' D. 'Prasooti: Kamatattvasya Kalagamasaritsrutih: Prasootiryashasaa saa aasiit Satiitvasya paraa Dhriti: ||' L. 'Kusuti: Kamatattvasya Kalagamasaritsati: ||' T. Kusruti: Deception. 16. Of the art of love. 17. The flow of the river of the art of knowledge. 18. Expansion. 19. Of chastity. 20. At marriage. 21. Marriage enthusiasm.