Lilavaikaha

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

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Lilavai-Kaha of Kouhala
770. Her neck was well-fashioned with the clearly marked-out three lines (of folds) and having a very thin covering strap and far excelling the neck of a golden pitcher.
771.
772.
774.
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Her lips, red like coral, covering her teeth, and slightly protuberant in the middle like a bunch of flowers of the passion-plant delighted (the eyes of the seer).
773. Her eyes, long and red at the corners with the dus t particles in water during long bathing looked like blue lotuses touched by the (red) rays of the early-morning sun.. Her eyebrows reaching upto her ears and resembling the strung bow of Cupid appeared like stems of the lotuses in the form of eyes.
Her straight nose, not prominent and straight with small nostrils and enhancing the beauty of her lotus-like face, was also attractive as it was neither (too) flat nor (too) sharp.
775. Resembling half-moon, her spotless broad fore-head seemed like a clean looking-glass created by lhe Creator for the Beauty of Youth.
776. Delicate and dark, glossy, long and charming, her curly mass of hair stretching down her back looked charming
with sparse adornment.
780.
777. Thus, whichever part of her body was seen captivated the unwinking eyes of the observers (lit. did not allow their eyes to move).
778. Thus having gazed at her for long, I thought in my mind. "It must be some other Creator who has shown such a skill in creating this form.
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779. Otherwise, how could such an extra-ordinary) form emerge at the hands of that Brahma (lit. grand-father of the world), dull with (the study of) Vedas and averse to longing for sensual pleasures ?
I think she is created from the essences of the nectar, Pārijāta (--flowers) Cupid, Spring, wine, Kaustubha(-gem) and (goddess) Śri (or Beauty) put together.
moon,