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Besides, lovely young women separated from their beloved ones and worn out miserably by the strokes of unendurable arrows of the God of Love, were passing their days, closing their ears with their own hands out of fear of becoming swooned by hearing the clear and melodious cry of the Indian Cuckoo, while resting on a bed of soft qura Mpiņāla, esculent tubular fibrous roots of the lotus-plant and of tender leaves of young lotuses, and the trees of 4 Campaka - Michelia Champaca, crowned as it were with clusters of fresh flowers, appeared as if they were ready to burn away the multitude of travellers by exciting the fire of sexual love in them, and on seeing the disc of the Sun covered with flower-juice wafted there by fierce wind, the wall Cakravāka birds-ruddy geese, male and female, were under the Impression of PT Sandhyā,-e vening twilight-even at mid-day. In it, the trees with flowers on them, did not endure pressure from people but pious saints were restraining their organs of senses and passions, and female snakes were eager to remain in beautiful creepers, and coguettish girls were intent on the pastime of a particle of happiness.
When Viśvabhūti, Kumāra accompanied by beautiful young females and led by his astonished retinue of domestic-servants, was roaming about in the central part of the pleasure-garden and carefully examining the splendour of the garden, a gardener went to him and said, "O prince! You please cheerfully examine here These rows of mango-trees are beginning to have clusters of blossoms; the jasmines are flowering; these tender Asoka trees have visible sprouts, the crimson amaranths have buds on them: these oleander planis are commencing to have flowers; and this Punnāga tree (Rottleria Tinctoria) has new offshoots on them."
In this way, the Prince was passing his time by amusing himself in the pleasure-garden At times, he used to hear discoursts on statesmanship; at times, he was thinking about some mystical meaning; at times, he used to have dramatic reprentation of plays composed by distinguished poets by actors who were clever in the art of acting and in reproducing blandish
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