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thus looking bright like pollen-particles (kaņa) of the Karketana. ( Bimba) fruit.
795. A condition of becoming slightly thin (viralattand ). ( loose and wide apart ), as in the case of filament-threads of a fresh Bakula flower, (scorched ) red by the (sun's ) heat, comes over the young girl's breasts, which look pale-white through loss of strength (because of exhaustion ).
796. Thus does his eye rest on these young girls who, in their innocence (muddhabhāva ) indulged in continuous enjoyment (to satisfy ) their sexual desire (maana) for the first time, languid as they are (now), in their covert ( ņihua) dalliance ( with him )..
797. Then, of this king on whose pillar-like arms rested (nimia) the burden of the whole world, there was ( a Poet called Bappai-Rāa (Vākpātirāja ) who, although decorated with the distinctive title ( imdha) of Kavirāja, was a drop in (the ocean of) his favourites.
798. Although insipid, 'he felt himself prominent with only this much – that he was being held in high esteem by the honoured Poet Kamalāyudha,
799. Whose special (poetic ) features flash forth in his literary compositions ( kahūnivesa ) even to-day, appearing like spray-particles of poetic nectar, churned out from the ocean of Bhavabhūti's (works ),
800. Who (found ) great delight in Bhāsa, Jvalanamitra, Kantideva, in Raghukāra (i. e. Kālidāsa, the author of Raghuvamsa), and in the literary compositions of Subandhu and Haricandra,
801. Whose graceful display of (poetic ) speech (givilasia ) is a veritable painting (in words ), steeped in sentiment, soft ( loņam ) (for the tongue ) to handle (i. e. recite ), full of substance (sāravamta), ever-lasting, brilliant and solid in its shadow (of sense i. e. thought ).
802. Those well-versed in Scriptures, in (the science of) Speech (Grammar ) and in Metre (Prosody), those among whom Bharata (author of Nātya-Sāstra ) and Gautama ( the propounder of the Nyāya System of Philosohy) are prominent, the writers of legendary narratives ( such as Mahābhārata and the Purānas ), as also (great ) poets of substance give him (perennial ) joy,
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