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ments of amorous women and of different gestures of hands, feet, eyes etc; and at times, he was listening to the music of Viņā,-Indian Lute,-played by some clever songster, in the Pancama (fifth-later seventh) musical note of the Indian scale, rendered delightful by pleasant metrical timing
While living in this way in a solitary locality, Prince Viśvabhūti, one day, heard the following taunting words of a female messenger :
O lord! the other day you gave her the stain of inferiority for the whole life, while accepting her as your co-wife O fortunate man! While bringing fresh lotus-stalks to her for the purpose of pacifying her unbearable fire of separation, all the lotusstalks in the ponds were exhausted; while collecting young blossoms of mango-tree daily for her protection, the nails of my fingers were worn out; while driving away every moment the sweet-voiced Cuckoo who was making her shrill cries near her, my arms became exhausted; and saying frequently, "Here comes your beloved one! He must be the same person. Have courage for a while, " my tongue got tired of speaking. Now your affec tionate one is in a miserable condition. Therefore, if you like to keep her alive, O Prince! You immediately go to her
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Besides this, the Prince was passing his time in amusing himself with the best methods of pacifying wrath of some blunder in addressing their names; sometimes, in playing with parrots and fm Särikā, female parrots, sometimes, in hearing the noise of quarrels among his beautiful young wives; sometimes, in supplying nourishing materials desirable for new plants brought from various distant countries; and sometimes, in witnessing the dancing of intoxicated forest pea-cocks.
One day, while playing gambling with his young wives, it became mid-day, and the Prince, accompanied by the females of his harem, came out for sporting in water and went to the lake in the pleasure-garden. While being dragged along with the current of a big wave, the Prince was in a moment, seen
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