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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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KALPA SÚTRA.
Sirisha?, Mudgara?, Mallika 3, Gâti, Yüthika", Ankolla , Korantakapatra?, Damanaka , Navamâlika", Bakula 10, Tilaka ", Vâsantika 12, Nuphar, Nymphaea, Pâtala 13, Kunda?4, Atimukta 15, and Mango; and perfumed the ten divisions of the universe with its incomparably delightful fragrance. It was white through wreaths of fragrant flowers of all seasons, and brilliant through splendid, beautiful embellishments of many colours. Towards it came humming swarms of different kinds of bees 16, and filled with their sweet noise the whole neighbourhood. (37)
6. And the moon: white as cow-milk, foam, spray of water, or a silver cup, glorious, delighting heart and eyes, full, dispelling the compact darkness of the thickest wilderness, whose crescent shines at the end of the two halves of the month, opening the blossoms of the groups of Nymphaeas, adorning the night, resembling the surface of a well-polished mirror. She was of a white hue, like a flamingo, the stars' headornament, the quiver of Cupid's arrows, raising the waters of the ocean, burning as it were disconsolate
? Acacia Sirisa.
? A species of jasmine. 3 Jasminum Zambac.
Jasminum Grandiflorum. 5 Jasminum Auriculatum. Alangium Hexapetalum. ? Not specialised in our dictionaries. 8 Artemisia Indica. • The many-flowered Nykanthes or Jasminum Zambac. 10 Mimusops Elengi. 11 Clerodendum Phlomoides or Symplocos Racemosa. 12 Gaertnera Racemosa.
ia Suaveolens. 14 Fragrant Oleander. 15 Diospyros Glutinos or Dalbergia Ougeinense.
16 Shatpada, madhukarî, bhramara. The shatpada are literally six-footed bees, as Stevenson correctly translated, but he strangely reckons them among the preternatural animals, like the four-tusked elephants, dear to the imagination of the Gains !
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