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that of Him, are being gently beaten, There the beautiful garments of the beautiful women, with their lower lips red like the Bimba fruit, loosened owing to the untying of the knots tying together the ends of garments worn by them round their buttocks, wishing to slip slowly down the navel with a desire to show the youths the abode of the origination of passion [ or the abode provoking passion), are seen as if sustained anyhow by the stringlike girdle. In that city, shame of women disappears first and then the drops of perspiration drop down when their lovers snatch away passionately with their tremulous hands the beautiful silken garments resembling water possessing waves ( ripples ) circular like girdles, covering sandy beaches resembling the protuberant hips, owing to their being encircled by zones, covering hips resembling the sandy beaches, with their knots tying the ends of the garments loosened [ relaxed ] and possessing beauty similar to that of the beautiful face-cloth of an elephant. There the newly married ones [ brides ), with their eyes turning inside sportively when their garments are snatched away by their lovers with their hands through excessive passion, running after having got up from their beds, and having even reached near jewel lamps, possessing height or strongness owing to the rays emanating from them, are unable to extinguish them with the wind breathed out of their mouths. There the handfuls of powder, consisting of the ingredients of perfumes, scattered for obstructing the glances of the youths cast on all sides of the buttocks of the beautiful women, bewildered on account of their being flushed with shame, have their hurls rendered futile on account of their having fallen from their tremulous sprout-like hands in the intermediate region. In that city the clouds, loaded with water, carried to the uppermost parts of the seven-storeyed mansions by the propelling wind. variegated owing to their being spread over with the multicoloured rays by the jewels, imitating the bow of god Indra, having their existence in the vicinity of the clouds on account of their
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