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Lilāvai-Kahā of Koühala
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1300. Happily, being pleased by the young women with their
fun and jokes, the king remained (i.e. sat) there for some
time and (then) mounted the altar. 1301 Then, having circumambulated the fire (reverentially) four
times, and with great satisfaction, he sat there again after
doing obeisance to the priests. 1302. After the king had descended from the altar, a Simhala
woman came in front of him, with a tray of Ārātrika (i.e.
waving of lights around a person) in her hands. 1303. And then, the Vidyādharas and bards, with delighted
faces, soon began to sing a number of Gāthās, which were charming and full of figures of speech. (Thus-) “Your
Majesty ! (please) listen ! 1304. The couple of swans in the form of anklets, placed close
to each other without any movement, with their warbling (i.e. jingling for anklets) stopped completely and lying down
near (her) lotus-like feet is asleep as it were. 1305. The lamp, reflected in a part of the girdle, is as if sporting
in the secret parts of her body as its light spreads (there) through the thin garment worn (lir, fastened) between her
plump thighs. 1306. The line of down looks very beautiful on her belly which
is thin and having the three folds clearly market out and
uneven as she bends down a little. 1307. Creating a halo for (her) beauty spreading all about, as
she gradually waves her hands around the light of the
lamp, having no obstructions spreads far and wide. 1308. Going up and coming down unevenly with the waving of
her long arms, the (long) necklace moves round and about,
being uneasy at the separation from the region of the navel 1308.1 Shown clearly by (the light of) the lamp in the tray waved
around by her hands, the necklace looks charming on her breasts like the flowing stream of Gangā over a pair of peaks of the Meru mountain.
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