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they were the doors of the heart, the residence of the Goddess of Valour; possessing a splendid wide chest looking like an extensive sea of inviolable beauty adorned with the tossing of fish; due to his face being thickly covered with swarms of bees falling on account of the continuously oozing rut it appeared that the Creator made a dark pit without effort out of mercy for the injury that may have been done to all the other elephants; which appeared as if possessed of flames of the fire of anger on account of the spreading lustre of his pair of eyes as yellow as drops of honey; which looked splendid with a pair of long, glossy and smooth tusks possessing the complexion of fresh mālati flowers, appearing to be the first two sprouts of the universally pervaded fame born out of destruction of herds of intoxicated elephants; decorated with two cheeks as if with two kula-parvatas which are the source of the wide and continuously flowing river of rut; adorned with a kumbha (frontal prominence on the forehead) with something marked on it looking like an auspicious pot adorned with leaves for greeting the Goddess of Victory; having broad ears imparting broadness to the naturally broad face; which, because of the skin painted with small red dots (appeared) as if variegated with the particles of the blood of the enemy's elephants destroyed in many fights, and having waving lobes as if fanning the cheeks heated by the thick rut; looking fierce with a thick, gradually thinning, and very long trunk swinging fast, as if searching for all the herds of elephants on earth; (47) possessing a pair of temples looking terrific by the ruddy brightness of sindūra applied to them and looking like the breasts of the Goddess of Victory red due to the continuous rubbing of kunkuma; making the single-streamed Yamunā look like the Ganges flowing in three streams by the constant flow of rut at three places; whose (praise) is sung by the host of bards in the form of the bees being attracted by the fragrance of the lake of the ever-flowing rut; having a pair of beautiful white chowrie-like ear-ornaments, possessing the lustre of pure white conches looking like embodied fame earned in the victories obtained in many battles; possessing some indescribable charm by the broad shoulders with the joints firm, and with smooth and shining skin; having broad withers, an elevated and curved bow-like backbone, a well arranged tip of the tail and a very straight, long and glossy tail. He was pleasant yet terrific, possessing two tips (of the trunk) fascinating the minds of all people;. ...........; small in skin, hair on the body, scrotum and the hind quarter; big in shoulders, trunk and tail; very broad in thighs, withers, hips, cheeks, corners of the mouth and temples; very symmetrical in the hind-withers, tip of the tail, sides, belly and thighs; smooth in skin and hair; deep in mind and roaring; clever in movements and in performing feats; shapely in form and backbone; fragrant in breath
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