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lous occasion of the royal anointing of Kāma-déva (Cupid) by the showering of the Ketaki fjowers, followed by the Śaradritu, (autumual season) watching its best abundance of verdural wealth as if by the hundreds of eyes of Vila Kamila (blue lotus flowers) Then shone out the Heinanta laxmi (the wealın of the winter) writing as it were, the eulogiglic inseription of the victory of Kāma-déva) by the white buds of the spring-creeper resembling white letters, Last of all, appeared the splendour of sisira laxmi (the wealth of the cold season ) maintaining like a harlot the winter as well as the spring by the white flowers of the springcreeper and by the flowers of the China Rose. In a moment, all the seasons made their appearance.
Then divine females resembling the charming warriors of the God of Love approached Srainara Bhagavān Mahävira, and these beautiful damsels wirh charming bodies commenced their singicg indicative of the victorious incantations of the missiles of the God of Luve. Some us these divine females sang songs of varietig of Gāndhara gräma (third scale in music) with exact timings and with a pure heart. Some clever celestial females played on Vinā (Indiar: lute) sweetly differentiating between sound of consonants and vowels in regular order as well as by irregular notation. Soint beat a variety of drums producing sounds resembling the sound of a cloud making a spurious roaring. making a roaring of a twanging character, and also making roaring of great violence producing instantaneous showering of rains, Some, jumping up itito the sky and also on the ground began to dance making various co-quettish pranks and manifold glances of amorous vision. Some, iearing their jacket by forcible gesticulation and dramatic performance and tieing their loosened braids of hair, were trying to expose their lovely shoulders. Some, under the pretext of ppropriate steppings in dramatic performances were repeatedly showing the upper portiou of their thighs which were as white as go-girsa ( white sandal-wood ) Some, sportively trying to tighten the loosened knot of their under-garments were showing their wel -- like circular regions of their navel. Some, uuder the pretext of a dramatic performance
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