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on costly garments and valuable ornaments, mounted a lordly rutting elephant, and appearing beautiful with umbrellas held over him and white chowries waved rear him, followed Vardhamāna Swami, accompanied by elephants, horses, charlots, and an army of soldiers.
Being thus followed by a multitude of gods, demons, and human beings remaining in their right places, Vardhamāna Swāmi,-with a body measuring seven bands, --with a form of body equal in four directions,-with adamantine constitution, -with breath as fragrant as that of a loutus,-devoid of dirty perspiration, foul secretions, stain, dust, filth, and other blemishes,-illuminating the directions by the radiant beauty of his body,-with the mass of his charming glossy hair, as black as a wasp, indigo or lamp, tied firmly,--with his forehead appearing beautiful like the half-moon, -with elegant ears of right measurements, with the eyebrows curved like the staff of a bow,-with eyes resembling a full-blown lotus with white leaves,-with the nose prominent and long like that of an eagle,-with the lips resembling a ripe Bimba-phals (the fruit of Momordica Monadelpha ), and the ropes of teeth firmly adherent, well-connected, ever, and white like a conch, cow's milk or pearls, -with his cheeks fat and muscular,--with a voice as deep as the sound of a kettle-drum or of clouds full of water, -with his neck well-ineasured and ornamented with rows of lines turnirg south-wards; with his shoulders welldeveloped like that of a wild buffalo, a lion or a tiger, -with his arms muscular and ornamented with fine hair,- wbose broad chest was lucky with the abode of the wealth of selfcontrol, -wbose middle part of the body was embelsished with excellent rows of fine hair and deep navel - whose beautiful thighs were getting plump in regular order higher up,-whose knee was hidden and well-adherent,-aad whose soles of feet were marked with signs of a mountain, town, alligator, sea, wheel, goad, fish etc.-being greeted with perfumed powders by citizens from the tops of their buildings, leaving aside their lood and drink,- being welcomed by showering of flowers by gods from the skies,-being invoked by celestial damsels with benedictory
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