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(92) the elderly relatives. Owing to this and to his habitation in company with her, His beloved, sambara had come to know the calamity that had befallen her. He, therefore, had conjectured her to have undergone that state in the period of the incomparable separation. śambara told Him, an affectionate one, that He should ascertain the whole of his statement, urged by the matter at issue, made recently by him in His presence to gain his ends, to bet rue; for a thought of self-importance did not allow him to become loquatious, śambara desired that she, possessing beautiful teeth [i. e. in the prime of her age ], first of all fixing her lovely eyes, with their side-glances prevented by the tresses, devoid of collyrium, and moreover having the graceful movement of the eyebrows forgotten owing to her renouncement of intoxicating juice, upon Him the very moment she would see Him, should bring happiness to Him obeying his order. He told him that He, with His mind determined to dispell His soul from His body, should, relying on his truthfulness, visit the city of Kubera to enjoy her. According to him the eyes of the fawn-eyed one, moving side-ways in the upper parts when He, become ready to convince Himself of the statement made by śambara, would be Dear, would attain resemblance to the beauty of blue lotuses, set in motion owing to the disturbance of the fish ( i. e. owing to the pretty kettle of the fish ).
Canto 1V :- By śambara's beloved, his second soul, that had been sent as a message, in a way charming to her affection for Him, to Him owing to His being her second soul, owing to His making a choice of whatever was new, and owing to His being noble. sambara said that He should hurry up to carry it into effect. Every work of hers, his relative, would be brought into effect by Him, assuming the form of a cloud after His separation from His body, caused by the wounds inflicted by his sword. sambara asked the sage where He would get off safely, when he would have got angry. With strokes of his drawn sword he
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