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immediate proximity of the pleasure-gardens near the mansions, for, as it were, offering water for washing feet in secret, destroy completely at night the fatigue of the passionate women caused by moving on the untrodden path. In that city the royal roads are found covered over with the beautiful Mandara flowers resembling the signs of the blessed state of wifehood, fallen down from their curly hair owing to the agitation caused by the gait of the love-lorn women going unfairly owing to their frequent stumbles for the sake of nocturnal sexual enjoyment on finding their lovers delaying.
In the garden, there, the abode of sexual enjoyment of the couples resting in bowers of flowery creepers is pointed out by the skirts of their beds possessing blue ornaments in the form of blue lotuses worn on the crowns of their heads, scented by perfumes used at the time of sexual enjoyment, having bees spread all over, and by lotuses, possessing gold-like colour, slipped off their ears and reduced to pieces. There in the city of Alaka the abodes of sexual enjoyment of the couples sporting near the forests grown on the banks of the Ganges, constructed on the sandy beaches, scattered over with flowers, are suggested by a large number of fruits assuming lustre red like that of saffron, by nets of pearls, and by necklaces the strings of which are broken owing to the expanse of the circumjacent regions of their breasts. The path in that city, traversed at night, of love-lorn ladies is indicated at the time of the rise of the sun by flowers scattered here and there owing to their being dropped down from the braided hair slackened owing to their being tossed by their gait, possessing bees, imitating the discharged arrows of the flowerarrowed god and by the lack-dyes deposited on the ground by their feet.
According to Sambara, the city has no other standard of comparison in the whole of the world even owing to its being
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