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ŚṚNGARAMAÑJARIKATHA
garland of flowers; at whose foot were royal swans like Brahman <who sits on a royal swan; where the paläsa trees were shaken by hundreds of monkeys like the battle between Rāma and Rāvana <where the demons were obstructed by hundreds of elephants»; which though full of thousands of matangas «elephants, caṇḍālas» was resorted to by dvijas «birds, brahmaņas»; which had hundreds of two-tongued-snakes yet had thick sarala trees; though very big it was full of aguru; it had bears though it was uneven; though possessed of forests and mountains the love of the beloved it has many mountains with water «it was extremely detached»; though it was pervaded with Mlechhas it had always spies in it; which was as if rivalling with the rising and setting mountains tinged with the colours of darkness, moonlight and evenings on account of the rays of white, dark and red jewels looking like the colour-sticks of different jewels; which produced the illusion of a thick forest of bamboos at wrong places in the minds of the simple Śabara women who were tired of roaming about on account of the spreading lustre of the pure sapphires; which exhibited his own tiara of lordship of the mountains by the lustre of its golden tops spreading high and low; who manifested its distinguished mountain-ness as being the place of the rise and setting of the rays of even the luminous bodies like the sun and the moon; who bore in his lap the river Narmada (lit. the daughter of the mountain Mekala) like a beloved in whom shone the fish (the fish bannered one, Love), who had a clear necklace <bank> and who possessed of plump breasts «roarings and a deep navel <whirls»; which was very shady like the evenings «when the shadows are long»; which was decked with the āra, the nipa and the bamboo trees like this story-teller who belongs to the family of the Paramāra king; which lighted up the whole world like the Ratnadvipa; which as it were flew up to the heavens for threatening Indra with its wings in the form of the waters of the hundreds of streams rising high by the strong wind;
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In that city dwelt a famous procuress by name DHONDHA. (80) She had a daughter called MALAYASUNDARI who was clever, goodlooking and intent on earning wealth....... ...PRATAPASIMHA came to her place for a night. Being over-powered with passion he somehow spent the night. When the day had not yet dawned, when he got up a little perturbed, put on his clothes and desired to leave he saw her, who had got up before him, playing with her sister's Then he said to her: "Whose son is this?" Teasing him she said: "It is mine". As soon as the word 'mine' reached his ears then he jumped upon her like a tiger and throwing her down on the ground scratched with his nails her forehead, nose, breasts, cheeks,
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