Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Glorification by Bards
been washed clean, as it were, by the spray showered by quarter-elephants.”
726. “Those good men are attracted towards you by your merits, great ( and outstanding) in this world. You, however, are drawn towards them even by a fraction of a merit in them. You are, thus, among the good men, a greater and a better man.”
727. “The seeds of glory, which were sown and wetted with water (poured) over gifts at the proper time in the fields viz. worthy Brahmins, have now grown ( to yield you ), O Lord, ( a rich harvest of affluence)”.
728. “Vanity was passed on by you to your supplicants who ( strut about ) stiff and erect ( samuttuna) with the fulfilment of their great desires; hence, I think, no such trait (of vanity ) pulsates in you, even in your position of supreme authority.”
729. “The mighty tree of munificence, O King, has been aided in its overgrowth, as by branches, far and wide, by those very kings, who, receiving from you, gave away (in gifts) here and there.”
730. “With the pearls (obtained ) from holes bored by your sharp lance (tomara) dug deep in the temples of elephants, your beloved ladies weave creeper-like necklaces. " Removal of Bodice . 731. Kept over the whole length of the loosened string passed through eyelet-holes (jāla) (attached to the bodice ), the hand rolls down to the place of its knot (vīdaatthāņa), which becomes tough and hard, ( kakkhada), by the upward pull exerted by plump (pedhāla ) breasts.
732. (Glimpses of ) parts of the belly, over which the encircling strap with eye-holes joined to the bodice (jalia ) is being untied with the delicate ( vellahala) fingers of lotus-like hands, look beautiful, the relaxed (triple ) folds being (bhamgamgā) being slightly visible.
733. The full rounded expanse of the breasts, characterised by rows of curved nail-marks, ( their scabs ) being painfully peelep off (uccudamta) by the tight flaps (kavādaa) (of the bodice), acquires the charm of the full moon's orb left off a little by a cloud.
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