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svely fond of combating, spoke again to the Sage thus the iuperhuman power, resembling Laxmi, of the brave, freed from the tortures causing disturbance in mind [ or caused by the god of love ], looking at you from beneath a sylvan tree where she is sitting, resembles the chaste woman, Sita ( the daughter of the king of Mithilā ], looking, with her face raised up, at the son of king Pavana, from benenth a wellknown tree grown in the garden, of the city of the ten-mouthed one, where she had sat. śambara said that in a battle fought by Him and by śambara himself when, He, completing the number of best warriors, having dispelled fear, would be having recourse to the battle-field, then the goddess of the brave, with her heart throbbing owing to her yearning for Him, on seeing and greeting Him, displaying her love for Him, would surely resort to Him the very moment He would have recourse to the battle-field. He addressed Him, an impassive one, that as His ears did not listen to a charming speech made by him with reference to a filght, with its implication quite clear, he thought His ears were aflicted by winds blowing verp harshly. He asked Him to take that song sung by women, when hcard by Him, to be a medicine curing deafness [i. e. an antidote against deafness ] and said that by using that medicine He would have His ears capable of perceiving sounds. He said that their song worthy of being given audience, their eye-gladdening beauty worthy of being perceived, the fragrance of their mouths worthy of being drunk, their body worthy of being touched and smelt, would be the very suitable means of rousing His passion. Those women, he said, had come from His beloved and so to meet them would be as good as meeting His beloved actually, for arrival of friends coming from one's own beloved is a little less than actual meeting. He requested Him that in his name and to benefit Himself, He should, for that reason, immediately, highly respect the garments of those women, delicate like young and tender foliage, the charming
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