Lilavaikaha

Author(s): K R Chandra, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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S. T. Nimkar
64. There in that city (was) a king named Salāhaṇa who (lit. whose body) was enveloped in all (kinds of) virtues, and whose fame had spread in (all) the world.
65. He was one, who, though without a Vigraha (body or war) was yet handsome with all the parts of his body beautiful all over, and who, though difficult to behold for the people was yet giving delight to the eyes of the people.
66. Though a Kupati (bad husband, or lord of the earth), he was dear to his wives; though Nayavara (bowing to others, or expert in polity) he was adventurous; and similarly, though afraid of the other (people or other worlds), he was very brave.
67. Though Süra (the sun or brave man) he was not Sattasa (drawn by seven horses or seized with fear); though Soma (the moon, or handsome) he was always free from stigma; though a Bhogi (a serpent, or enjoyer of pleasures) he was not double-tongued (or double-dealing by nature) and though 'tall' (or high-minded) he gave fruit (or reward) to those near him.
68. (He was one) who had left all his enemies divested of the expanse of kingdom and miserable with weakness like the moon of the last days of the darker half of month (which is also without the halo of the orb and feeble).
69. (He was one) who had subjugated the circle of kings with his valour and who had conquered the world, (but) whose back the enemies had never seen like the other side of the moon never seen by the people.
70. (He was one) whose enemies spent their mountains, being made tawny with the herbs (and therefore) looking as if enveloped by the lustre of his fire like valour.
71. (He was one) who was painted as Cupid on homes by beautiful ladies with their hands red bue of their nails.
nights in caves of dazzling lustre of
the walls of their reddened by the