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walking round swifty, with the charming soft note of the tinkling of their jewelled bracelets, and with the timely tunes of the jingling of bells attached to their breast-coats reaching the buttocks.
Prince Visvabhūti going to Pleasure-Garden.
With the object of seeing the great festival of spring-time Prince fasayfa Visvabbūti, followed by the entire splendour of his retinue of sycophant-servants, soldiers, and family servants, and accompanied by an aggregate of female courtiers, his young wives, and other females of his harem, -went into the pleasuregarden named " VEF Puspa Karaṇpaka,—where the trees were looking elegant as if they were singing on account of the hordes of enamoured drones who were roaming around them with the object of tasting the plentiful juice of their flowers, as if they were dancing on account of their large branch-like offshoots set in motion by fierce wind, and as if they were smiling on account of the long-petal-leaves of a Kétaki,-name of a Aower-plant, (Pandanus Odoratimus)-which were aus white as a mass of foam, and which were perfectly developed-where the trees of Jambu (Rose-apples) Jambira (Citrunes Jambirica) Khajuri (Date-palm ) Anjana (a kind of tree), tall Nòrikér ( Cocoa-nut) Phanasa (Jack-fruit), Arjuna (name of a tree), Khedira (a kind of acacia) Srikhanda (sandal tree), Karpura (Camphor tree), Prigi (betal-palm, areca catechu), Preyala (Buchanania latifolia commonly called Piyal), Nima (a tree with bitter fruits; Azadirchta Indica), Amra (Mango tree), Bakula (Minusops Elenge, said to blossom on being sprinkled with wine from the mouth of young women ), Vata (Indian fig-tree) Peepal (Sacred Fig-tree and its fruit, Ficus Religiosa), Kadali (Plantain tree). Navamallıkā (Double jasmine, Jasminum Sambic), Madhavl (Spring-creeper bearing fragrant white flowers (Gaertnera Racemosa), Sala (Vatica Robusta ), Sallaki incense tree, Boswelia Thurifera), Sāga (teak-wood), Nipa (Nau. clea Cadamba), Hintāla (a kind of palm-Phoenix Paludosa ), az Vamsa (bamboo), aforos Tāpiccha, (a Tamāla tree), Foggr Kacchura an aquatic plant, and other trees were carefully preserved with
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