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46. Here the masses of the splendour of the jewels on the ramparts, which emanate in the form of a circle and touch the sky, brighten for a while the luminous hallo of light of the sun and the moon.
47. The heavenly breeze steals the pearls under the guise of the drops of perspiration on the moonlike faces of lovely women loitering in the round enclosures on the turrets of gates.
48. Here [in this town), the youths, cohabiting with the moon-faced ladies in the interiors of moon-stoned dwellings, do not, indeed, experience the exhaustion of love enjoyment even on the gloomy summer-nights.
49. This [town of Mathurā ], with its head [in the form ] of lofty palaces lifted up and with its eyes ( in the form ] of circular windows dilated, is, as it were, looking eagerly at the earth which has a girdle-band ( in the form] of the ocean.
50. Here, the young trees in the pleasure-grove perform the function of washing the feet of guests with the water (in the form) of the trickling juice of flowers and make an inquiry about (their) well-being with the notes of cuckoos.
51. Here, the breezes, loaded with the moisture of the lakes and charged with the delicious fragrance of lotuses, are indeed ever ready to allay the increasing sexual exhaustion of the couples.
52. Here, in some places, the bees, which are swarming on the ground that is slimy with streams (oozing ] from the fountains of the temples of constantly infuriate elephants, create the illusion of a pavement of (blue) sapphire stones : is it not so ?
53. Here, the peacock dances, day to day, in some shelter which is constantly sprinkled over by streams of water splashing with a rustling sound as they issue forth from the channels of water-jets without any hindrance.
54. Here, somewhere, is heard the sweet and loud sound of a tabor which is deep and [therefore] resembling the thunder of clouds and which is a signal to the gesticulations of actors in the
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