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grief for their lotus-plants, lamenting during the night (in separation from their lord, the sun ).
1178. The moonlight, withdrawing from the moon with his orb resting on top of the setting mountain, now lingers on unsteady (gholai ), thin and yellowish-pale like a mango-blossom (rasagga).
1179. The thick (black) mass of darkness, with its heart pierced, runs away, like the Kali age, not bearing (to hear ) the utterances of the pious deeds of good men, adorned ( avaamsa ) by their meritorious actions.
1180. The canopy ( viāņa ) of the surface of the sky became pinkish-red (pādala ) like a fully bloomed ( ajada ) Japā flower, ( appearing) as if it is bestrewn (vibhinna ) with the lustre of the jewels, (inset) on the aerial cars of gods gathered out of curiosity (to witness and hear the narration ).
1181. The emerging, red light of dawn (aruna ) first comes out in the beauty and splendour (sohagga) of the fresh foliage of the tree of the sky, with its pale ( withered ) leaves in the form of stars dropped away
1182. The sun's orb, resembling a sharpening wheel (ạisāṇacakka ) for the sword in the form of the sky, flashes bright in its red lustre, like the flying circle of the (blazing ) pulverised particles of the (wheel's outer ) brick-layer (itthācunna ).
1183. The darkness was (completely) uprooted by the sun, so that it may, as it were, never come back again, indicating, as it was, by its massive thickness, the ocean's ( drowning ) reunion, as it were, ( as happened for the sun the previous evening ).
1184. And now, happy after having finished his (morning) duties ( to be done) at the end of the night, he (the Poet ) started to narrate the life of the King (Yaśovarman ), very much like the life of Cāņakya.
1185. And then, as the walls of the various quarters, ( standing) huge and high, with their cleansing operation parisuddhi) carried out by means of the iron-chisels of darkness, were (made ) fit for (the inscription) of our King's pangeyrics (on them ),
1186. As the sun's orb, like a jar, with tender sprouts in the form of the (sun's ) green horses placed on its top, was held
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