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(She is nice. to touch like butter, her words are sweet like milk and her body [has the brightness of] the ghee which has been melted to eat.)
Gc.
..Kşiramadhurasvarām apanitanavanitamardavadambaram tadātvadrutas arpiḥsamkāśakaya
käntim...1
(She has a voice which is sweet like milk, tenderness which is like butter and the splendour of her body is like the ghee which has just been melted.)
8. The description of the manner in which the chief of the cowherds Govinda asks Jivandhara to accept his daughter.
Cc.
kula ninaiya ampi kojun kayar kaṇ valli nala pukarnian apra naruntär murukan
2
(Nampi, do not consider the (difference in] family. For, Murukan, the one who wears the sweet smelling garlands enjoyed Valli, the beautiful eyed one.)
Gc.
..kumāram abhivandya nandagopaḥ ca.... puratanajanukhamukravišiṣṭānām avilista Jäti jätänganäsangamisamkatham ca kathayan 'bhavadvihitanirhetuko pakārasya pratyapakāram apasyata maya disyamānām pariņayatu me kanyām.3
(Nandagopa, having worshipped Jivaka, told him..about those who like Şapmukha had married girls who were from the lower caste and said that he did not know how to repay him [Jivandhara] for the help he had done and asked him to accept his daughter.) 9. The description of the state of Śridatta who was sitting on the sea shore after his shipwreck.
Cc.
tun tiraikal utaippav urunt urunt atum alavoraiy annam arul ceya nitiya neytalan kana petuntakai vatiy Iruntän varun kala nokka.
15
(Expecting to see a ship, Critattan, waited at the seashore watching the swan being gracious to the wobbling crabs which were pushed by the running tides.),
Gc.
calataranga-taranginipathi-tarangaparamparavilu had
akathorakarkaṭakavalokana-sakautukam kādambakadambakam
apy alokayan kam cana kalakalam gamayambabhiva.5
(He spent some time there watching the group of swans which were engaged in watching the beautiful crabs which were tossed by the tides which rise from the sea full of moving tides.)
1 Gc. 2 para 87, p. 143. 2 Cc. v. 482
3 Gc. 2 para 86, p. 141..
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4 Cc. v. 516.
5 Gc. 3 para 91, p. 150.
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