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Gaidavaho
(parikasana) and (strewn) with broken chips of precious stones, even now speak of their expansive width (@hoa).
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681. Both the ponds and temples (being buried underground and levelled up (samikaa) in course of time, the lands here look uneven (visama) only with slight elevations (unnaa) and depressions (niņņa).
682. Here are these old (decayed) walls, with lines of pointng in chunam ( cunṇarehā) still held fast at the base (foundation), deviating (moving away) from the doors of a round-shaped (golaa) house and with reddish-yellow decaying plasters (of bricks).
683. The houses here look, as it were, solemn and aweinspiring, admitting more light inside because of broken patches in lattice-windows and (mixing) in their own shadows the faint shadows of their pillars.
684. The terraces here even during day-time are hair-raising (ukkamṭaamti) because of an imaginary (fear) of ghosts, raising sudden sounds where there are no sounds.
685. The premises of houses here cause distress (in the heart to see) their palms and date-trees (despoiled and) left bare (by people) out of their greed for fruits and foliage (and to see) the old water-drawing wheels (on their wells) deprived of their iron bars, their (wooden) spokes lying (broken and) scattered about.
686. Here on the outskirts are even to-day the paths leading to the precious hoards of wealth, as indicated by symbolic signs, being watched by kings with down-cast (ohura) heads, (feeling ashamed at the thought of) having been frustrated in their efforts (plans) (vihuārambha).
687. The streets here at nights are, for a long time, enveloped in pitchy darkness, with no outlet of smoke and dust any more and greatly reduced (in width) (viralão) by the houses falling on them.
688. Such were the conditions (samnivesa) of (their own) cities witnessed by the hostile kings, who (left a long time back) to join (our King) in his service, greatly disturbing (and destroying) the prosperity (of their own cities).
689. Look at the face of this woman which has regained its brightness and has again taken to the mirror: It beams like
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