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midst of musical concerts that are displayed with the observance of tempo.
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55. Do you hear, somewhere in the liquor-clubs, at the time of dance, the singing of maidens from the eastern countries which is vehement due to the effect of intoxication, which is charming, and which resembles the sound [issuing] from the throat of a cuckoo.
56. Yonder [you] hear the sound of the disputations of grammarians like this: [ some maintaining] 'the sutra (anaci ca), which defines the. (retrospective) influence of a following letter (in duplicating the immediately preceding), is inoperative, because the substitute-letter has the same value as that of the original one'; [ while others argue] 'it is operative in the matter of changes due to any letter'.
57. This town of ours, which is (rendered) resonant in some places by hosts of bards that are uttering panegyrics (lit., glorificatory verses), though seen for a long time, does not, indeed, [ permit us to ] divert (our) eyes elsewhere.
58. Are there no Gandharvas <songsters> here? Are not the Vidyadharas <men possessed of various vidyās>, indeed, found (here)? Is there not the fine party of Caraṇas <bards> (here) ? Are not the Kimnaras <different people> triumphant (here) ? Is this not an abode of the gods <good people > ? Is not the great Indra <the king> the lord of it? This charming abode of wealth which is glorious with the possession of religion is heaven itself (which is an abode of gods that is glorious with the Sudharman hall).
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59. Here, the beautiful ladies, whose passion is excited by the loud shrieks of the violently dancing peacocks that are full of eager longing on account of the splashing sound of rain-showers discharged by massive and thundering clouds that are clinging to the peaks of pleasure-mountains, and who are affectionate (lit., wet) with great attachment, though refractory in love, embrace (lit., cling to the necks of) [their] beloveds, closely and impetuously, bri ging together (i. e., pressing) the golden jars [in the form] of their swelling breasts.
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