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ensnared by a heavenly queen, in one day was completely shipwreck'd in faith"; 266
Thus those enticing women, by their power, overcame the Brahman ascetics; how much more may ye, by your arts, overpower (the resolves) of the. king's son; 267
Strive therefore after new devices ?, let not the king fail in a successor to the throne; women, altho' naturally weaks, are high and potent in the way of ruling men. 268
What may not their arts accomplish in promoting in men a lustful (impure) desire ?' At this time all the attendant women, hearing throughout the words of Udâyi, 269
Increasing their powers of pleasing, as the quiet horse when touched by the whip, went into the presence of the royal prince, and each one strove in the practice of every kind of art, 270
(They) joined in music and in smiling conversation, raising their eyebrows, showing their white teeth, with ogling looks, glancing one at the other, their light drapery exhibiting their white bodies, 271
Daintily moving with mincing gait, acting the part of a bride as if coming gradually nearer`, desiring to promote in him a feeling of love, remembering the words of the great king, 272
1 Completely ruined. The name of the queen was Ghritâki.
? The Chinese 'fong pien' denotes the use of means to an end;' generally it can be rendered 'expedients.' :: Or, the nature of women although weak.
* So I understand the passage, as if a coy wife gradually approached her husband.
• Who the great king is I do not find, but I take the two lines following to be a quotation. [The great king was probably the father of Buddha.]
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