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with eyes looking like a pair of lotuses with unsteady bees within it; who looks bright with two cheeks resembling the disc of the moon cut into two in order to remove the dark spot; who is charming with a pair of shapely ears as delicate as the sirişa flowers and looking like the ropes of the snare of the hunter Madana skillful in catching the deer in the form of the young men, who is beauteous with the bridge of the nose, with its tip a little raised, resembling the stafi of the lute of the fish-bannered God; who looks splendid with lips as red as the ripe bimba fruit or coral of the sea of love, or a leaf of the creeper of Love; who is charming with the sprout-like neck with three lines, as delicate as the spring of the trees of Love, as sweet in sound as a conch; who has creeper-like arms which by its tenderness mock the lotus plant, on which due to the illusion of its being a lotus-stalk rests (two) hands like (two) open red loluses with filaments in the form of the rays of the glowing, tender nails and which (arms) are attractive because of their well-formed curves and fleshiness; who has a pair of breasts, plump and well formed with the tips a little lowered, looking as though they were a couple of pots to store sensual pleasures; who is adorned with a waist which is as difficult to be reached as the knotty thoughts of Mīmārsā «which are difficult to understand, which (waist) was not visible though desired to be seen by all being concealed by the plump breasts, which though thin had accepted the three folds, which though delicate had the capacity to bear the weight of the stout breasts, and which though in the middle yet stood foremost among all the charming things; whose waist was decorated by a navel as deep as a lake fit enough for the scented elephants of Madana to enter for merriment; whose abdomen was divided into two by a line of hair affording comparison with the string of the bow of Smara and the line of rut oozing from the elephant of youth, possessing the temples in the form of breasts, who had hips as wide as the jewel slabs of the pleasure mountain, looking like a moving place for the elephant in the form of Madana; whose lower portion of the body) had two thighs resembling two tying posts of the intoxicated elephants of Madana and which resembled the trunks of the golden plantain placed opposite each other; who looked shapely with thighs which were wellformed and symmetrical, not very straight, graceful and which surpassed the plantain stump in its softness; whose loveliness was augmented by the feet which were like two lotuses, offered as gifts by the lake of lotuses, being itself vanquished by the splendour of the moon in the form of her face; whose pair of feet were adorned with a row of well-grown glowing nails as if they were a row of mirriors of Kandarpa to see all the limbs; who was enveioped in lovliness which over-flowed after completely filling in all the limbs, just as she was always surrounded with servants; who was wearing
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