Lilavaikaha

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

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S. T. Nimkar
sight for the eyes and that an auspicious moment, , where
(and when) you will be seen again". 514. And I said, “Friend Madhavilata, tell me for what reason,
you also with astonished mind, regarded Cupid so highly ?". '515. She replied, “Good lady, (that was) because, in that place,
the prince also spent his day (lit remained for the whole
day) with his mind centred on the praise of your virtue", 516. Then with the affliction of the day-time alleviated by the
pleasure of union at the rendezous of the setting-mountain,
the sun, passionately in love, was embraced by the West. 517. The clusters of trees had their foliage thickened by the
flocks of different kinds of birds roosting at their tops and
had thick darkness accumulated at their bottoms. 518. Burnt by the conflagration of evening-twilight and having
glowing stumps (of trees) in the form of stars, the sky at once resembled a (burnt out) forest with all the quarters
blackened by the soot of darkness. 519. The world was at once swallowed by darkness resembling
Death which had made invisible all the quarter-regions and which had wiped off all the splendour of light (or of the
world). 520. Then appeared the orb of the moon, half-arisen and red and
having the beauty of the temple of Divine Elephant (i. e.
Erāvaņa) half-submerged in the ocean. 521. Having the tawny red lustre of the cheeks of intoxicated
divine damsels, the splendour (or light) of the moon, having
slightly ruddy orb, spread (everywhere), . 522. The darkness, grayish with sparsely shining moon-rays
looked (lit. became) like the Tamala-grove marked with the mass of foam from the ocean churned with the Mandara
mountain. 523. With the mass of darkness diluted (or, thinned) by being
mixed with the tender rays of the moon, the sky looked
like floor with emerald pavement tempered with silver. 524. Pierced by the rays of the moon standing on the peak of