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16. The richness of her personal beauty is very splendid. The sun and the moon are, as it were, moving in the form of her nails. Her legs are like the plaintain tree which emulates her whole body (?). Thinking its trunk no good the lord of elephants has, as it were, resortel to the high peak of Meru The mountain of the gods (Sumeru) thought it to be harder and so has followed the tender bodied at her hips. The ampleness of her hips is attractive as if Cupid has made it so, thinking it to be his home. The depth of the navel has, as it were, been given to her by the ocean calling her his daughter Her large, protruding breasts, with scratches, look like the frontal globes of an elephant with fresh wounds. How can I describe the shapeliness of her creeperlike arms accompanied by the beauty of the leaf-like hands. The line of teeth is resplendent as if imitating the pomegranate scels. Not tolerating the elevation of the nose, the lip has assumed redness. The pupils in the white and dark eyes look beautiful as if big bees were sitting on Ketaki leaves. The well curved line of eye-brows appears like the bow-stick taken up by Cupid. The forehead, in its great elegance, appears like the half-moon sticking and shining there. The hair, with bee-black locks, shake like darkness gathered there for fear of the face-moon. If by her beauty, matching Cupid, my husband becomes perturbed in mind, then. with a quarrel, he would certainly leave me and honour her ".
17. Thus, feeling jealous, she turned her out giving her a bad name. The latter, without any resentment, walked out of the house the very moment. Proceeding on with great trouble, she saw the cemetery where kites were sitting on the pieces of the bodies of thieves and adulterers pierced with spikes; which was thick with the blood of the persons torn; where the animals, greedy of flesh, bad commenced a dance; where the bellies of beasts were split by bears with restless tongues; which was haunted by demons rapturously feasting on flesh; which was crowded with tens of thousands of birds sporting and hovering, and beset with multitudes of creatures being consumed in the flames of fire; where masses of hair on the heads were fluttering in the air and where strips of rags, tied to each post, were shaking; which was sickening to people on account of the smell of human bodies and
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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