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ever, have deflected and moved away (31tafT3T) from the foundation and the walls have ( decaying) reddish-yellow (975MTAT) plasters (949).
683. The houses have a very solemn and grave appearance, because they admit more light (31FEST tar), as their latticewindows (1937) have broken in parts (FET). And in the shadows of the houses have mingled the slight or faint shadows cast by the pillars.
684. The top-most parts or terraces of houses cause shivers (37pcsifa) even during the day, because of the imagination (param) of ghosts; no sounds (OHE) are heard from there and yet overpowering fright creates (af537) them.
685. Compounds of houses (Artan) had trees like palms and dates; but we find their foliage and fruits are plucked away out of greed (TE), leaving these trees bare (fafta ). In the same way, the iron bars of water-wheels (REE) have been removed (3795ta) and their wooden spokes (5) are thrown about (CIE)
686. In the suburbs (9fThe), there are big precious treasures (FOTETO) buried under-ground and their location is indicated by symbolic marks (face). They are being wistfully looked at with bowed heads (ET) by kings, as they could not be utilised for their various projects (आरंभ) in which they failed (विहुअ).
687. The natural darkness of the night is greatly increased, as the smoke and the dust could not be cleared for a long time and the roads also became narrow (fast) because of the debris of houses falling in heaps over them.
688. fagfsy...aefe - (Kings ) who greatly disturbed or dislocated (fagf531) the continued progress of the prosperous conditions (of their subjects ).
Next, in a Kulaka of 6 Gāthās ( 689-694) we get a description of the various pleasures which the wives of the army men indulged in, when their husbands returned home after finishing the campaign.
689. Here is a lady who has regained the brightness of her face, after the return of her man and has once again taken up to the mirror to observe her reflection. During separation, the
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