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of golden campaka flowers had lustres bright like turmeric. The buildings had straight streets or arcades or market places whereas the quivers of the soldiers had pointed arrows in them. The palaces there were many-storeyed and subjects were used to wearing many types of necklaces. The main shops were provided with locks and keys while the lines on the pates of the intoxicated maidens bore curly locks on them. The concubines there acted in accordance with their nature (i.e. gratified the carnal longings of the lovers or men) by fresh (use of) wine while the women of the town acted in accordance with their nature being endowed with husbands standing peers to the gods.' Therein the attractiveness lay in forms and no infatuation was available for coition."
Turmeric hue was plastered on the bodies and no adulteration of turmeric was seen in the oils or no fleeting nature was seen in loves like the colour of turmeric. The people loved to establish their houses near the gardens and temples. The groves of the Tamāla trees served as abodes. Their couches wore counterpanes of the clove-leaves or the mats formed out of the sprouts of cloves served as couches. Love-quarrels were the only quarrels." The marks of the nail bites served as the gems decorating the body." The drinking vessels comprised of the lotus faces of the beloveds." Kāmasūtra formed the spiritual lore. The cure for diseases consisted in the employment of the measurement to enhance virility.!4 Their worship of
1. GRASST fitui Taufa**after ITM. Vol. III p. 172. 2. ufaferet: lefagli: 74cquasi Ibid. 3. Ehfcth: YATI: Ibid. 4. falca: WH1901: YI tara i Ibid. 5. The fenduel: queaf-a: ukyan si Ibid. 6. T ag 7 Tagi Ibid. p.172 7. EfRr6 gi Ibid. 8. यत्र मन्दिरोपवनान्यावासनगराणि, तमालतरुनिकुंजाः सदनानि, लवङ्गपल्लवस्रस्तराः पर्यङ्काः, प्रणयकलहाः कलयः, नखदशनविन्यासाः शरीराभरणभणयः, प्रियावदनशतपत्राणि पानपात्राणि, कामसूत्रमध्यात्मशास्त्रम् वाजीकरण
1114794964 37194 aaa , haçalah Ta a lei Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 9. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 10. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 11. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 12. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 13. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173. 14. Ibid. Vol. III p. 173.
