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1057. The flower-wreaths, decorating her neck, attracted swarms of bees which came and entered (tot) the flowers and soon, after having sucked the honey, fled away (EST), thus causing great torment to her slender body (31 ). The Poet imagines the bees to be the age-old flying mountains with wings.
1058. She had jewelled earrings to adorn (wartfast) the fullness (STTET3T) of her body and the earrings looked like heavenly cities (दिव्वपुर) with which the broad expanse (आहोअ) of the earth was beautifully studded, surrounded, as the cities were, by circular walls which corresponded with the big, round pearls at the lower ends (F CT) of these earrings.
1059. The bright gold-like face, round in shape (HHT), of the Maiden-earth, has its upper half viz. the head, bluish-black (विणीलद्ध) because of the night (णिसा) which is transformed now in the guise of her braid of hair; and the face, held between (31 ) the two jewelled earrings (Afuris ) formed out of the moon and the sun (afargt). It thus looks like the golden mountain Sumeru, round which the two luminaries viz. the sun and the moon revolve. Cf. Azt fifices STATUTHTRIT: f a t graferat, पश्चिमभागे तु तमः, इति मुखेन कुण्डलाभ्यां पश्चात् प्रलम्बमानकबर्या च युक्तेन सादृश्यम् । Com.
1060. The garlands of gems, that she now wears, cast about bright columns of rays, with which the whole body is closely associated (festfrost) and lit up. These columns of rays all over her human body are, as it were, a network of roads (PETA), with which, she, as the earth, was formerly characterised.
1061. She has flowers like lotuses as decorations for her ears (37a31A ). From them trickle down (UTHTATOT) drops of pollen (रअबिंदु) which gather (कलिअ) at the base (मूल) of her broad cheeks (1575). It looks as if these pollen-drops are particles of dust (TT) of the natural earth, now transformed to her human face and they are moist and slowly dropping down ( for) to the lower parts of her cheeks. Cf. Bracareffer केशेषु धारितानि यानि कुसुमानि तेभ्यः सकाशाद्वहतां रजसां बिन्दुभिलिप्तमूलेन TUS FUIT fæfacts Tighearna aferetfaccef: i Com.
1062. Her long creeper-like braid of hair (tantae) has flowers strewn (9540) inside its tresses and is covered up with hovering rows of bees clustering over it. It looks as if she has
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