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king that the sages desirous of practising penance for the attainment of salvation might be harassing themselves and would have no interest for her and questoning the superiority of the abode of the liberated souls to herself, possessing seven-storied lofty mansions, would give an ironical smile, as white as the moon, in the form of the discharge of water in the rainy season, That city, according to Sambara, bears an assemblage of clouds, discharging showers of drops of water, produced in the rainy season, possessing a rain-bow, formed by the ends of the rays of jewels: shooting upwards, having cranes in the form of the rows of flags moving in all directions in the sky, with the uppermost parts of her palaces scraping the clouds, like a noble woman free from pride, with her curly hair encircled with the nets of pearls. The mansions in the city, constructed by putting emeralds especially, possessing pleasure-mountains in their vicinity, having beautiful women, possessing multicoloured pictures, having rising volumes of smoke of incense coming out of the groves of pine trees and spreading on all sides, are quite competent to display always the rainy season, looking dark on all sides, pervading the sky, possessing flashes of lightning and decorated with rainbows respectively. In that city the drums, beaten in the temples for the purpose of the evening musical performance, causing the peacocks, noisy with their cracklings, to dance, making the swans, giving out notes exciting pity, distressed by their earnest desire for the Mānasa lake, make, in all the seasons other than the monsoon, a noise, resembling the deep thundering of clouds, excessively. There the expansive mansions, having their uppermost parts expansive, with beatings of drums, possessing lamps in the form of jewels, having floors studded with jewels prominently, having their uppermost parts scraping the clouds, are quite competent to stand comparison with an assemblage of clouds scattered in all directions, giving out deep thunders, with their forms decorated with the lustre of lightnings, posessing
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