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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
160. In the ocean of the firmament stars coming out of the oysters of the clouds
radiate lustre of pearls along the shore of the night.
161. There rose the columns of smoke, the shock of hair of the rows of trees,
fluttering banners of Madana spreading fragrance, the sailing clouds screening the moon's rays or, the deputies of darkness.
162. When Vişnu awoke his eyes feel on the worthy sight of the sky, a beautiful
lotus as it were, grown from his navel in which Brahmă was born : the white clouds in the sky being its multiple petals and the rays of the sun its filaments..
163. The long day bright with the jewel of the sun in its hood slithered away to
the West sloughing off the oppressive heat of the noon.
164. All the sides of the sky cleared up as if they are the branches of a tree that
have been loaded down in the rainy season and which have now cleared up when autumn came by shaking off the clouds which look like a swarm of bees.
165. There faded the rainbow which adds to the beauty of the sky like the nail-marks
freshly made by the departing rainy season on the bosom of the lady namely the massive clouds who wears them as a sign of love and happiness.
166. The house-wife wiped her face with her hand soiled with soot from the kitchen.
The beautiful face thus looked like the moon that has dark spots on it and seeing that her dear husband started laughing (? The face then looked like the moon (with a dark spot on its surface) and seeing her naturally spotless bright face soiled her husband (felt amused) and started laughing.)
169. For translation vide SP S. No. (33.49) supra.
171. The day falls like a trunk; the sun looks bloody like the throat slit with a knife;
the twilight drips blood; and the darkness rolls away like a severed head, a
black hairy ball. 172. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (32.48) supra.
173. It (The sea) has the volumes of waters just as it has fortitude. It has winged
mountains as it has shoals of whales. It has waves as it has incoming rivers, and numerous substantial qualities as it has gems.
