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1115. Wonderful fancy! The Poet imagines the sky as a rod of a measuring balance (g), holding two pans at its two ends, held down by strings (3) in the form of rays () of the sun and the moon. After sunset, the sun and the moon are placed in the two pans of the sky-balance. The lump of the sun in the west (af) is found heavier and, therefore, pulls down (3) the balance-rod at its end, as a result of which the jar-like (कलसो व्व) moon is tilted upward ( उक्खिप्पइ ) in the sky, while the sun has gone down.
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1116. The moon comes out (f) on the horizon, flushed red (1) by his close association with Cupid who stands by his side, fully equipped () and thus causes a good deal of love's excitement (संरंभ), which colours him red. He has a halo ( परिवेस ) formed round his orb and it thus appears that he (the moon) holds the curving bow (a), turned into a full circle (f) when fully stretched, under the garb () of his halo.
1117. The moon is reddish (a), as he just rises on the rising mountain and the thin (af) cloak of darkness gets loose on his orb and slips down (fr). The moon thus resembles the charm of Balarama, intoxicated by booze, from whose body the bluish garment (faver) which he wears, has slipped down ( ल्हसिअ ) .
1118. The rising moon is red (T) like the navel-like hollow cavity of a conch. This red colour is brought on him, perhaps because of the pourings ( ओअरण) of wine-filled glasses ( महुचसअ ) offered by lovers in his honour.
1119. The moonrise is a death knell to the day-lotuses (3). Therefore, as the moon heaves up (3) on the horizon, his rays appear to be faltering and flickering ( ( विलोल ). The Poet imagines that these fickle rays are, as it were, the hanging clusters of lotus-fibres (fa) of the day-lotuses, forcibly uprooted ( रहसुम्मूलिअ ) with a view to destroying them all-together ( विणासबुद्धीए ) .
1121. The Poet expresses his diffidence for this great task for which he feels that he may not be able to do full justice. The glories of the great give all the encouragement, if sung well and properly. If, however, the poet fails and does it in a sloppy, haphazard way, without giving a full and correct picture of their
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