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water inside and lofty respectively. The mansions in that city, Sambara said, are capable of establishing similarity with masses of autumnal clouds with the lofty parts of their uppermost divisions white like snow, with oceans with their waters dashing against their shores [ or with oceans with tides having their waters rising high up ), with the deep sounds of the musical instruments, with the principal mountains with the parts of their walls shining with the spread of the rays emitting from the gems and with Him with their various special features. There the scented cosmetics, scattered here and there in their beds owing to the pearls rubbing against their breasts having their circumjacent parts raised up owing to their being pressed by their husbands embracing them, turned into mud by the drops of sweat exuding on account of the efforts, moistening interior parts of their beds, suggest the exhaustion increased at the end of their sexual enjoyment of the women closely embraced in the arms of their husbands. There the bright rays, penetrating through nets of interloping threads ( or hanging like a mass of threads ], propagating not very densely, of the moon, not going out of her right way, the lord of night, occupying the crown, put on the head having hair collected like matted hair, of the husband of the white-complexioned lady [i. e. of the lord of the north-east direction ), would be able to remove at once the bodily fatigue of the couples caused by sexual enjoyment. When the young ladies there, desirous of going alone to the abodes of their lovers at midnight, wearing ornaments, concealing by wrapping themselves in black garments, pining with love, would be resorting to the bazaar roads giving up the ways deviating from the right paths when the darkness would be dispelled by the rays of the moon brilliant owing to the removal of the obstruction caused by Him. There the excellent moon-stones of the roofs of the mansions, exuding pure drops of water owing to the downpour of rays of the moon and so washing off the regions in the
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