Lilavaikaha

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

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Lilavai-Kaha of Koühala
414. So why speak anything else; what you have told me (just
now), that you have done well; do not be afraid of
serpents now. .415. Good lady, this Malaya (mountain) was formerly difficult
to tread upen even for gods, with its thickets of sandal
wood trees infested with snakes. .416. Seeing the sandal-wood groves full of snakes and therefore)
difficult to enjoy (or inhabit) for Siddhas, (my) father
propitiated Garuda. 417. He gave to my father this ring called Nāgāri (or Enemiy
of-snakes); take it, so that those serpents will not over
power you in the sky.. 418. Let alone those moving in the sky, even the poison of
snakes that are in the nether-world this one (i. e. ring)
destroys when it comes within their sight”. .419. And I said, "Give (it), O Prince, to this Princess; it will
completely destroy (all) poison when given into (her) hands
by (your) hand”. 420. Hearing this, with drops of perspiration trickling down his
bashful face, he siniled to himself (lit. in his mind) concealing his disturbance of mind as it was obstructed (or
perturbed) by noticeable anxiety. -421-422. Then, longing for the pleasure of the touch of her
hand and as if offering his own self to her, he took her right hand in his left hand, and after quite some time, as he put that ring in her ring-finger we also siniled to
ourselves, looking stealthily at each other. 423. So with perspiration caused by the touch of his hand she
melted as it were, like a doll made of moon-stone on
being touched by the rays of the moon. 424. And by the developing Love, her body, adorned with the
beauty of different graceful gestures at once was made of
something else as it were (i. e. not of flesh and bones). .425. Then, O Bhattaputra, this one (i. e. Mahānumati) trembling
with fear, embraced her and said to that Mādhavilatā,