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Though it is incorrect on account of the job of the god of love being done by the glances of the clever women, not missing their mark, the lustful persons, with their eyes turned straight to the lovers with the knittings of their eyebrows, it may possibly be correct as the whole of the description given by the poets, not informed [ or not knowing the facts 1, is quite possible owing to its being in conformity with the pattern proposed by poetics. If He would think that none could believe in the description given at length by śambara himself and doubt that whether it would be correct or otherwise, He, śambara said, should verily settle His belief. His ancestral palatial building would be discernible from a long distance from the palace of the lord of wealth on account of the lofty archway looking beautiful owing to the Indra's bow formed by the rays emanating from the jewels inlaid in the door. In the garden there stands a young Mandara tree, giving out fragrance of flowers, having delicate foliage, possessing charm owing to the songs sung by bees, having pleasant shadow, possessing in the vicinity of its basin a mould of a fawn made by plastering, reared up by sambara's wife as an adopted son, bent down owing to the clusters of flowers worthy of being plucked by hand [ i. e. within reach of hand ]. Sambara said he is neither a demon nor a god, neither a Kinnara nor a Pannaga; he is the Guhyaka, a resident of the city of Kubera. In the garden there is a tank, having a flight of steps built of emerald slabs, abounding in full-blown lotuses resembling those made of gold and having long stalks resembling those made of Vaidurya gems, owned by śambara himself.'
Sambara asked Him that He should take the beautiful tank, neutralizing heat with the pollens of lotuses, having water spreading wide, possessing waves in abundance, the swans having fixed their residence in the waters of which with their distress dispelled do not anxiously call to their mind the Manasa lake though near at hand even on seeing Him, to be the divulgence of his Karman.
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