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14. These sun-stones, pierced by the rays of the sun, begin to emit heat: even the insignificant do not tolerate the display of others' lustre, then what of great men like you?
15. This red glow of twilight, [which is indeed] a stream of blood, flows forth from the frontal region of the mighty elephant [in the form] of darkness, which (frontal region) is wounded by the claws of the fierce (sphuta) lion [in the form] of the sun and from which pearls [in the form] of stars are falling down on account of the mangling.
16. The bee, leaving immediately the night-lotus bed which is closing (lit., sleeping), resorts to the day-lotus bed which is blooming (lit., waking up), because, for one who has many beloveds, there is no hindrance anywhere in the matter of ever new lovesports, as in your case.
17. The reddish mass of the sun's rays causes the saffron-paste, (which was painted) on the large jarlike breasts of unchaste women coming out from [their] lovers' houses and which has been rubbed off by the chests of their beloveds, to look as if it has been applied once again.
18. And further, this (mass of the sun's rays), appearing in contact with the water of the (eastern) ocean, causes the suspicion of the bright submarine fire; and on the heads of elephants it intensifies the reddish hue of the vermillion powder.
19. Surely, let this lustre of the sun, which looks like a piece of broken coral, freely flash on your sapphire-blue chest, so as to acquire the loveliness of the saffron mark left [there] by the massive breasts of that Laksmi.
20. Behold this orb of the rising sun which is an ornamental coral ring on the ear of the lady in the form] of the East, which is a thousand petalled lotus in the lake of the sky, and which is a dome on the jeweiled palace [in the form] of the eastern mountain.
21. Janardana, who is awake even before the out-pouring of suchlike eulogies of theirs, [then] leaves his bed: [for] the
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