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SANGĀRAMANJARIKATHA
lotuses in the form of the eyes of all the peoples; the sheath for the water missile of Manmatha; the resting place of the group of senses; the mine of pleasures; the abode of delight; and the temple of beauty.
In which (fountain-house) the water of the streams is sometimes eaten by the foolish ducks made of white jewels and seated in the midst of the open artificial lotuses under the impression that they are lotus fibres; sometimes it appears to laugh under the guise of the grove of blooming kumudas; sometimes seems to dance with the jewelled mechanical dolls playing the lutes in hands; sometimes it appears to sing by the mechanical pairs of bees made of black precious stones humming inside the buds of open lilies; where at some places, the radiance of the crystal pillars is being sipped by the thirsty garden cakorakas even during day-time due to the illusion of its being moonlight, with their beaks open and their minds anxious; having (streams of water) ......... as thick as the inter twining of two or three lotus fibres oozing out from the corners of the eyes of the winged crocodiles, from the mouth of the peahen looking down, from the pairs of breasts of the jewelled dolls, from the end of the braid of hair of a golden doll just come out after a bath, from the tip of the nails of the jewelled wanton women;
......; from the hollow of the mouths of a family of monkeys climbing a mechanical tree, from the floorings, from the walls,
....... from the lotuses on the ceiling, from jewelled dolls, from pillars and from the pillar tops; which produces all round as it were (by the rays of the lustre of various jewels) another variegated grove of bamboos for the production of thousands of rainbows; which imitates as it were the monsoon by the darkening of the directions, by the sound produced by the continuous falling of thousands of streams of water, with the splendour of clouds formed by the network of rays uprising from the emerald pillars, and with the beauty of lightening produced by the intermittently flashing rays of rubies; where in the courtyard-tanks and ponds at some places a family of artificial cranes is cheated by the little Sapharikā fish coming in and out; at other (7) the mechanical young ones of tortoise are visible now and then, where at other places, the mermaids do not place their lotus feet seeing with fear the mechanical crocodiles coming out though they are anxious to see; where the mass of rays of the rubies are like the rays of the sun for the blooming of the buds of the day-lotuses on the inner walls; the middle portion of which has jewelled pillars, which supported one another, and which being reflected into each other appeared as if they had collected to carry the burden (of the whole construction); which, because of its charm is seen with unflinching eyes and anxious minds even by the bhāraputrakas; which produces wonder even in the minds of the
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