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courteously: "(While the king) was returning home from hunting (he saw you) and has sent me to find out to whom you belong and who you are. Therefore you may say ...........
"(She says that she had heard of the king and had come to him and if he does not accept her then in this life ..... MUKHARAKA considered himself as having done his job and .......... thought) 'Ah! this is indeed a shower of flowers without a creeper and a shower of water without clouds'.
When heat lessened ..... and the Lord of the lotuses went to the west; when the shade of the trees turned the other way as if unable to bear the heat:.... (43) when herds of hogs moved about here and there; when herds of cows moving slowly due to satiation, ruminating and hearing the tinkling of the small bells resounding due to the movement of the neck as they were walking, and with their eyes a little tired due to fatigue, were returning slowly to the town from the forests; when on the roads only a few travellers were seen; when flocks of birds, leaving the pastures quickly flew towards the garden trees; when the directions exhausted by the fierce heat became cool as if pleased at the touch of the evening breeze; when gradually the sun (lit. whose charioteer is Aruņa) red as the young, red-crested cock came to the top of the western mountain; and when the eventide made the intermediate space red with its rays red as if dipped in lac, like a weaver who weaves the middle part by spreading the threads through the shuttle; when the garden grounds looked beautiful as if marked with the alaktaka-dye transferred from the feet of the moving forest deities, due to the mixing of the thick shade of the trees with the evening glow seen between the interstices; when the waters of the lakes looked splendid being covered by a network of the rays of the sun atop the setting mountain and therefore turned red as if by the blood from the hearts of the pairs of cakravāka birds anguished by the forthcoming separation; when the clear crystalline floors in every house looked as if swept by the kunkumarasa because of being mixed with the rays of the sun resembling the open pomegranate flowers; when the eventide was resplendent as if it were with the tide of the tossing ocean of love overcoming the world. ...........
ii.... Gradually rose the Lord of the night-lotuses giving life to the clusters of kumudas and Love. Which was like a golden ear-ornament of the eastern direction, the mark of kunkumarasa on the forehead of the night, the shining golden mirror of the directions, the only blooming 'golden lotus in the lake of the sky, the one pot-like breast of the heaven anointed with kunkuma with its garment in
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