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with water of a lake below, would be diverting themselves, Sambara said that if there could be no deliverance from them of Him, secured by them at the time when there would be excessive heat, He should intimidate there, engaged in sport, by His thundering sounds harsh to the ears. Afterwards having carried out various performances, there, with them, He, having release from them with a great difficulty, reduced by the wind to the state of His body having wounds inflicted, imbibing the water generating golden lotuses, of the Manas lake, conferring the pleasure of possessing a face-cloth for a moment on Airavata, should divert Himself again on the mountain. Sambara addressed Him that He, dwelling on the golden peaks of the pleasure-mountains, beholding there the seats of cohabitation existing in the bowers of creepers meant for the heavenly damsels for coition, shaking off the sprouts, resembling thin silken garments, of the wish-fulfilling tree by His breezes, pleasing and. possessing various movements, should enjoy that lord of mountains.
He, as if tied down by leathern straps owing to His body being encircled with the rope-like lightning, having stayed there on the Kailasa mountain for a long time, should go down from that mountain, with a desire to secure what is expected by Him, upon the city of Alaka, the abode of the best of Yakṣas, with its white garment in the form of the Ganges fallen off on its slopes, as on a lover's lap, when the breezes of wind would be blowing slowly. Sambara said that He, the wanderer-at-will, experiencing the pure nature of the pure soul through repeated practice of concentration upon the pure nature of the soul, knowing all the knowables, possessing pure knowledge, roaming over the whole of the world, possessing foresight, would not know well the city of Alaka, known in the whole world, the source of wealth [ or a place where wealth is acquired in abund— ance], unless He would see it actually. The cify of Alakā, thin
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