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(82) being beset within the floors of the uppermost part of the mansions, assume in abundance the beauty of a beautiful canopy in the sky. There the assemblage of autumnal clouds, resorting to the uppermost parts of the månsions, discharging thin lines of spreading sprays in large quantities, being as if frightened on account of their causing damage to the paintings with drops of water in the very presence of the people looking at it, immediately disappears.
Canto-III- In that city, clouds like Him, owing to their high speed, entered into the interior part of the uppermost roofed terraces, turned somehow into smaller shapes ( or forms ], skilled in imitating the irruption of the volumes of smoke, fall out shattered into pieces through windows as though having their fears roused at the sight of the couples there, engrossed in taking great pleasure in sexual enjoyment. The Yakşas there, attended upon by the breezes rendered cool by the waters of the Mandākini, having their heat warded off by the shadows of the Mandāra-trees grown in the forests grown along the banks, are, along with their better-halves, always interested in sporting in the vicinity of the pleasure-mountains possessing groves of plantaintrees coloured like gold. The maidens there, bringing into existence another womanly world, the excellent buds of beauty, the triumphal banners of the fish-bannered god desirous of conquering, courted by the gods, play with jems, worthy of being concealed by throwing handfuls of golden sands. The attendants of Kubera there, possessing inexhaustible treasures in their houses ( i. e, mansions ), having left to be satisfied with [or resting satisfied ), along with the Kinnaras, possessing sweet voice, singing loudly the glory of Kubera, announce clearly the maturity of Karmans [ offering objects agreable to desire ], bound with šoul on account of the meritorious acts done intentionally in former births. There the passionate attendants of Kubera, awakened by the shrill and deep sounds of tabor, possessing love
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