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108. To whom all directions hasten in a hurry, as it were, to serve (him ) with waving chowries, disturbed and agitated, as they are, by a thousand streams of water-spray spouted gleefully by his victorious elephants, returning (from his compaigns ).
And moreover,
109. The lower lip looks charming when up-turned, being pulled by means of the finger-tips loosely placed on it, revealing its slightly dented surface on account of the inside ( bite ) bruises.
110. Sighs somehow are slyly given out (and they ) settle upon (paditthiä) the sportive lotus (in the hand ), forcing up the filaments in a whirl and stirring the honey at the bottom.
111. Their beauty blooms ( all the more ), as in their peevish ( mood of) dejection for not having (obtained) the playful pleasures of love's enjoyment (with him ), they pull their curly locks of hair with the left hand, crush them in vain and strew them about (on the head ).
112. The face develops a charm ( in spite of the fact that ), accepting only a single auspicious flower, the decorative wreath is sent away and the sandal paste, after a slight reverent bow, has been spurned with averted eyes.
113. (Such is this king) for whom, I imagine, the heavenly girls languish even now, on account of love's malady, worked up by the charming sight of his fighting (prowess ) in battles.
or otherwise,
114. The mountains, unable to contain their summits even in the sky and reverting from the ends of the quarters where their own ridges had already extended, get ( themselves ) burnt, having nowhere else to go to, although they lifted themselves up a little for flight.
115. The mountains discharge moltern iron, as it were, being smelted by the fire of the thunderbolt, their slopes enveloped in coils of smoke issuing from their cave-mouths.
116. The heavenly mountain (Meru ), with a mass of fireflames falling out from its smoking wings, was observed to be in close association with the Night and the Day, as it were, which also moved with him in his hasty flight.
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