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a broad blade, gives joy to the earth, increases the wealth of the earth; is as dark as the leaves of the white lotus plant, is unapproachable and is difficult to be plunged into by herds of enemies' elephants like a lake whose waters possess the colour of a cat's eye-gem, which is adorned with big lotuses, in which night lotuses grow, which possess the splendour of blooming blue lotuses, which is dark with the leaves of the lotus plants, which is very deep and into which even herds of best elephants cannot bathe.
the sun
When his valour, born of his unique splendour which glitters like the mass of the rays of rubies, which is unsurpassable even by and which cannot be conquered by others, became a city wall of the earth as of a single town, the four deep oceans assumed the beauty of a moat. His fame, resembling the glitter of the polished teeth of the Draviḍa women, having the complexion of the petals of open jasmine, became paste of sandal on the creeper-like bodies of the separated-women, balls of foam on the sea, the celestial Ganges in the expanse of the sky, the stalks of white-lotus in the lakes, crystal slabs on the slopes of the mountains, and white cloth in...
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He, who is the source of brilliant fame as the Himalaya is of the Ganges, the moon is of the moonlight, the laughter of Śiva is of pure whiteness, and as the ocean of milk is of the moon
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(10) Having said thus, when the Yantraputraka stopped, the Lord of the Earth himself commenced narrating:
DESCRIPTION OF THE HEROINE OF THE KATHA
And of that king there is (a courtesan called SṚNGARAMANJARI). She is the presiding deity of the wealth of beauty that bewitches all people; the one abode of Love, who vanquishes the treasure of beauty of the heavenly damsels by her own beauty; who has a braid of hair quietly hidden behind her like a mass of darkness whose advance in the front has been checked by the refulgence of the ever-shining moon in the form of her face; who holds as it were the white umbrella of facial beauty won by the loveliness of its broad forehead which looks like the digit of the moon on its eighth day, and which conquers the three worlds with its staff in the form on the forehead; who bears two creepers in the form of eyebrows as dark as oily collyrium, slightly bent at the corners due to the (weight) of the fruits in the form of deep love, with the bunch of flowers in the form of glances, and which are continuously resorted to by bees in the form of the eyes of youngmen; (11) who is adorned
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