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solicit Him through the chirpings of swans, suggesting His good fortune by her state of separation [ from Him), would give up her emaciation. Though, on the way, there would be a possibility of having various emergent occupations, He, having completed immediately the remaining journey through fear of His main purpose being defeated, and having reached the country, called Avanti, possessing in the villages old people well-acquainted with the stories of persons that had attained liberation, should proceed on to the big city of Viśālā abounding in wealth [ or glory). śambara said that there was no necessity of describing that city, highly praised by the whole world, possessing excellent glory, the eternal abode of the goddess of wealth [or glory ], the only source of happiness ( or wealth ], an unparalleled shining piece of the residents of heaven gone down to the earth owing to the fruit of their good deeds being reduced to a very small scale of measure. There in that city of Viśālā, the wind, bending the lofty trees grown in the gardens, very cool owing to the disturbance of waves, prolonging the shrill notes of cranes [ or swans ) indistinct yet sweet owing to the cranes being intoxicated, fragrant owing to its association with the perfume of the lotuses [ lotus-buds ] burst into flowers, blew along with the masses of the drops of water at day-break.
The breezes blowing there from above the Siprā, cool on account of blowing through the waves, carrying masses of sprays, setting the gardens in motion, displaying the buzzings of gladdened bees speaking gallantly like a lover requesting his beloved for sexual enjoyment, agreeable to the body, dispell, he said, the fatigue of women caused by. enjoyment. The well-informed people residing in the city, according to him, entertain their relatives went there on a visit as- “Here, oh friend ! it is reported that the king of the Vatsas and the Murundas, a veteran warrior, destroyed the elementary divisions which are described as the daughters of the Karman, the ferocious enemy of the soul
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