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was circumambiated by a fortification having a broad platform and its walls white like snow.'
It was provided with hundreds of oblong tanks having extensive steps conducive to descent. It was surrounded by huge circle of moat having its ripples terrific owing to existence of elephants alligators and crocodiles, being difficult to ferry across even by the flights of imagination. It had four huge gateways making egress to the quarters.' It had its squares radiated by the circle of temples of gods engirt round by the ramparts white with the stucco-paint with gold ewers shining over the pinnacles of the sanctumsanctorums. It had its out-precincts darkened by the groves having temples of Manobhava (Kāmadeva). Bhava (Śiva) and Bhavānī not being deserted even for a second by the society of gallants singing, reciting or chanting and discoursing with amorous gestures with eyes directed towards the faces of the towns-women and having the shrill creaks of the sweet and noisy watermachines being heard every day by the tired travellers sitting underneath the thick saplings irrigated by the sluices or canals flowing with water rushing in haste. It was adorned with the market-lanes extensive and wide, accessible to the wheel of the chariot (i.e. the tassels of rays) of the Sun, the heaps of turquoise, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds etc. being visible in the open and with their both sides occupied by the rows of golden mansions of the glare of the rows of hill-tops. It had palaces glamorous with many storeys provided with ruby lettices and mural-paintings carved out on the ivory-columns supporting the roofs and had pedestals of courtyards decked with swings, had auspicious wreaths hanging over the lofty alligator shaped arched portals and had parapet-turrets scraping the sky engirt by colossal
1. qartaffel fasllagu fa turi Ibid. 2. विपुलसोपानसुगमावतारवापीशतसमाकुला। मनोरथानामपि दुर्विलडेन प्लवमानकरिमकरकुम्भीरभीषणोमिणा महता
endast feat Ibid. vol. I p. 44. 3. Ibid. vol. I p. 44. 4. 3172016-7764
Y a girdarytsaari Ibid. 5. vietaRudra +4 hotzt: Edarauf defektusch:.... JGyfareti Ibid. 6. त्वरापतज्जलविसरसारणीसिक्तसान्द्रबालदुमतलनिषादिना
परिश्रान्तपथिकलोकन प्रतिदिवसमाकर्ण्यमानमधुरतारघटीयन्त्रचीत्करैः परित्यक्तसकलव्यापारेण पौरवनितमुखार्पितदृशा सविक्रियं प्रजल्पता पठता गायता च भुजङ्गसमाजेन क्षणमप्यमुच्यमानमनोभवभवभवानीभवनैः.... आरामैः श्यामायमानपरिसरा.... etc.
Ibid. Vol. I p. 45. 7. गिरिशिखरतंतिनिभशातकुम्भप्रासादमालाध्यासितोभयविभागैः स्फुटविभाव्यमानमरकतेन्द्रनीलवज्रवैडूर्यराशिभिः
Rata yugir : yaraláfutet: wafati Ibid. Vol. I p. 45.
