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Rativega, resembling a Naga woman, feeling disconsolate, trembled in all her body, was stunned at heart and fell senseless. By the swoet fanning of the chowries and with the help of water the virtuous and charming lady was made to rise up by lovely young women who could tame the mind of sages. She beat her bossom with tender and shapely, lotus-like hands and then with anxious eyes and faltering speech said "Oh hostile fate, sullied with sin, what have you done? Why have you snatched away another's husband who had been made by me my own? Oh adverse ill-luck, you have been unjust and evil-faced. Oh my lord, graceful and happily wise, where have you gone? Have pity on me, oh my master, the best of the best men. I am falling in the ocean of grief and heading towards doom, oh lord, save me. I am your wedded wife. Now fallen in misery, whom shall I look to? Being bereft of you shall I now live or die?" Thus did the virtuous lady, overhelmed with grief, lament in her heart " I shall now speak only when I meet my husband.
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The excellent minister feeling highly grieved but consoling all his people who were heavy at heart, went ashore with all his men there.
12. When the army was encamped there, Rativega celebrated her vow. Then feeling uneasy, she soon invoked the goddess in soft tones. She drew forth a beautiful circle like guileless faith propounded by Jinen-dra. In the middle of it she installed firmly the divine goddess named Padmavati. The goddess residing in the eastern quarter came as she was invoked. The goddess was made of red sandal-wood besmeared with camphor, sandal and saffron, worshipped with fruits, flowers and eatables and honoured with a fast on the first day. The incantation with the seed, which she obtained by teaching, was muttered along with an offering of fresh saffron and flowers. Drawing with red materials, wearing red garments she, having concentrated herself with devotion, thought of the goddess with a firm mind.
13. When thought of with worship and honour, the goddess Padmavati came up with slow, graceful and tender limbs and putting on an indescribable, unprecedented look, being endowed with a richness of beauty, red in person and pure at heart, bearing in her four hands the meritorious book along with the gourd and the signet ring along with the lotus- fibre. Her cheeks were shining with the earings and she wore
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