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ŚRNGARAMAÑJARIKATHA
offered and ........... Which (city) at some place becomes Brahmaloka being surrounded by rows of learned brāhmaṇas engaged constantly in religious rites, and with the ....... sound of the Khila and Nigamas being read, and all the Purānas, Itihāsas, Śrutis and Smịtis being related; which (city) at some places gives rise to the illusion of water-lotuses even on ground due to the crystal floors reddened by the alaktaka-dye on the feet of the women intoxicated with youth; where due to the deep sounds ....., due to music continuously going on in every house, and the border regions of the houses darkened by the thick growth of green flowering trees and the mastery of the peacocks in dancing ............ ; which (city) guides the movements of the female love-messengers clever in knowing the ways of pleasing the women piqued in love; which at some places becomes a world of Madana, enthusing friends in getting ornaments for the doe-eyed ones .... anxious to go to their lovers; which at places becomes the nether regions with the lovers shooded serpents» enjoying pleasures; and which at places becomes heaven with the winds following light «the Maruts following the Sun.
Where (in the city) the body of the towns-folk, skillful in all transactions, is compassionate like the storm which holds dust in it»; which is free from miseries like the ocean «which dispels the heat of the sun»; which is free from all horrors like Rāvana «whose residence was abandoned by Vibhişana; which had not widowers like the newmoon day «which is without the moon or the sun»; which has decked itself with resplendent gold like spring which is adorned with the pleasing Kāñcana trees; which has obtained union with pure ones like summer «which has heat; which has not seen heavy taxation like the monsoon «when the hot-rayed one, the sun, is not seen»; which has a longing for clean clothes like the autumn «when the sky is free from clouds; which is full of greatness like the old season «when snow is equally spread>; which is always free from anxiety like the winter «when there is no heat of the sun»; which though Mākanda «the root of prosperity”, is Asoka «free from sorrow»; which though Sarala «straight-forward is Arista «secure»; which though Sumitrānandana «giving joy to good friends> is Sugriva «of well built necks»; which though Virocana <brilliant is the immortal God enjoying pleasure»; which though Parameśvara «very rich» is without anger «without anxiety; which though Bhutanaya «mars» «laying down judicious principles for the people> is not moving crooked «not wicked; and which though full of pearls «free from diseases> is adorned with all the ornaments.
(4) Which (city) is encircled by a city wall, unique in form in the three worlds, which is white as snow like the Himālayas «which is white with snow»; which hampers the moon (lit. lord of the
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