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164. The eyes roll about, soft and reddish like Mälatī buds besmeared with honey-juice, looking bright with their lovely roots of eye-lashes, from which collyrium has been completely washed away.
165. The hips get greatly relieved of pain (nivvāi) in their close contact with drops of water dribbling from the dishevelled blossom-like locks of hair, bruised, (as they-hips-are) by the sprout-like nail-scratches, inclined downwards and closing up (in the process of healing ).
166. (Such is our King) who stays behind to enjoy, in the pleasure-ponds of his enemies, the pleasure of water-sports, arranged ( pimmāa) at the close of the summer day, with a bevy of courtesans.
And what is more,
167. With the (hidden ) streams of the (melting) golden mountain flowing out of its crevices, the fire appeared to be falling out from the nether world in big flames.
168. The heavenly grove of trees began burning up, the (hovering swarms of) bees being screened by the darkness of smoke, their bunches of tender leaves having been mixed up with the spread-out palms of the sylvan deities (in an effort to save them .
169. The moon's orb blazes up in flames, its spot-like deer, resembling a circling mass of smoke, running away (from it ), its attendant planets having dropped off in the guise of flying sparks.
170. The group of goblins stood up, as it were, in their hideous forms, although struck by fire, with the fire-flames lolling out from their cave-like growling ( muhala) mouths.
171. The Vidyādhara couple, fully confident of their inseparable state, starts burning up (and) the first streak of smoke, issuing out, looked like a sword-blade grasped in the hand.
172. The buffalo of Yama, enveloped in flames, was swallowed by fire, as if he was his own mass of smoke brought down to the spot ), after having stumbled against the ends of the universe (in an attempt to escape ).
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