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sufficient water, and they always looked elegant. At some places the pleasure-garden was decorated with the clusters of blossoms of mango-tree; at some places, it was adorned with the fresh sprouts of Asoka tree; at some places, it was appearing pleasant by the scarlet-red footprints of young females of noble birth; at some places, it was intermixed wirh a collection of fresh flowers of red rose plants; at some places, it was abounding in rows of buzzing bees; and at some places, the pleasure:garden was abounding in groups of flowers of proat Mālati, a kind of Jasmine with fragrant white flowers which open towards evening (Jasminum Grandiflorum). It seemed as if the plesure-garden becoming joyful, was showing its splendour. Besides this, the pleasuregarden was inhabited by various birds such as firmuga Kārandava, a kind of duck, Ee Hamsa, swan, Baka, a kind of beron (Ardea Nivea) (regarded as a type of circumspection as well as roguery and hypocrisy), Tan Cakravāka, Ruddy Goose, (the male and female regarded as a pattern of conjugal love are supposed to pass the night apart during which their plaintive cries are beard; poets frequently refer to the pangs suffered by them in separation),
RUE Bhārapda, (a kind of bird with two strong necks and bills and one body, three legs, with speech resembling human speech, and with very powerful and extensive wings capable of carrying three to four elephants on them. This bird is regarded as a type of carefulness, which Yogis and other people desirous of spiritual advancement are recommended to imitate. The bird is always careful to take its food by means of one bill only at a time, but it is said, it dies when there arises a separate dentre of taking food of a different kind by means of each of the two bills), TSuka, Parrots, ** Kurara, Osprey, Cakora, a kind of partridge (Perdix Rufa-supposed to feed on troon-beams; hence an eye that gazes on a face of moon-like beauty is so called; its eye is supposed to turn red at the sight of poisoned food), per Cataka, a kind of Cuckoo (supposed to live on drops of rain only), for Jalakhaga, an aquatic bird a tte Khanjavita, Wag-tail, artre Hārīta, ( a kind of pigeon ), and pigeons of five colours who were living there as if they were affectionate brothers.
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