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They arranged the birth-day festival; all the expanse of ten directions was full of the sound of drums; the batches of sportive women danced bringing one of the hands down. (51)
The women in the harem snatched out of joy fine clothes and upper garments of one another; the festival was full of women who gathered together, more fully decorated. (52)
The women gave out the hissing sound, being abashed at the blows of fists coming over their backs, and the chamberlains made the groups of intoxicated women dance. (53)
The sweet sound of drums, with their number of beats, was marked by (the accompanying) clappings of hands; the cheers of victory were raised by the groups of bards who were satisfied with alms. (54)
A great festival took place in the city of Vasantapura. When the royal servants together with the king were thus highly careless due to the joy of the fortunate event of the birth of a son to the king, Hermit Agnis'arman entered the king's palace for the purpose of breaking the fast but being not given reception by anybody even by a word went out soon, his mind becoming tainted with evil meditation due to the rise of the (previous) bad action. He thought, “Indeed, from my childhood, the king [24] bears continuous and unique spite to me. See his very secretive ways of action that speaking in my presence in terms palatable to mind, he is in action quite the contrary." Thinking so, he went out of the city. In the meantime, by the blot of ignorance and due to the non-realisation of
