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walls. It was surrounded by the pleasure-ponds. It had carousals being celebrated by the amorous persons in company with the ladies in domestic orchards abounding in coils of the Mrdvīkā (vintage) vines dancing in mellow breeze.? It had association made on all sides by Sarayū, the river that had come there to entertain Bhāgirathi or Gangā, with its precincts never deserted by royal swans come down from the Eastern ocean. It was inhabited in its interiors by all classes of people, virtuous housewives, coquettes being the embodiments of the lore of the treatise on Kāma, circumspective suave savants, well versed in the essence of legend and chronicle, skilled in drama, poetry, prose, philosophy, political science, treatises on dramaturgy and arts of acting and dancing, Kāmaśāstra, linguistics, etc. It had sacrificial ritual performed therein, had small gardens inside, had ivory columns meant to support the roofs, had lakes acting the role of mirrors. It had learned Brāhmaṇas turning it into a Brahmaloka. It had śrotriyas, Nāgarikas, Dvijas, Pauras, Gphas, Rathyās, enhancing its beauty. It had its economy regulated by the able officers. It had a huge army led by a great king. It had given proper facilities to the Arhatas (Buddhist and Jain monks). It had its political policy governed by the secret agents and had its populace engrossed in the affairs of the corporations. It had huge wells (mahākūpa) and water-machines (Araghatta, Ghațiyantra, Udghāțaka) as sources of irrigation etc.
1. धृतोद्धरप्राकारपरिवेषैरभ्रङ्कषप्रतोलिभिरुत्तुङ्गमकरतोरणावनद्धहरितवन्दनमालैर्दोलाविभूषितागंण-वेदिभिः.....
दन्तवलभिकाभित्तिचित्रानिव...... माणिक्यजालकान् कलयद्भिरद्भुताकारैरनेकभूमिकाभ्राजिष्णुभिः सौधैः प्रवर्तिताविरतचन्द्रोदया..... क्रीडासरसीभिः संवलिता, मृदुपवनचलितमृद्वीकालता-वलयेषु... गृहोपवनेषु वनितासखै विलासिभिरनुभू..मानमधुपानोत्सवा, पूर्वार्णववितीर्णैः.... राजहंसैः क्षणमप्यमुक्तपार्श्वया.... भागीरथीमुपस्थितया सरिता Heleri P ihen......... Hafarif 444#kartoitezifa 792fTefal PRI Ibid. Vol. I pp
46, 47, 55. 2. Ibid. Vol. I pp 46, 47, 55. 3. Ibid. Vol. I pp 46, 47, 55. 4. महापार्थिववरूथिनीवानेकरथ्यासकुंला, राज्यनीतिरिव सत्रिप्रतिपाद्यमानवाधिगतार्था, अर्हद्दर्शनिस्थितिरिव
नैगमव्यवहाराक्षिप्तलोका.......चीत्कारमुखरितमहाकूपारघट्टा..... विरताघट्टक्रमसमुच्छसत्सलिलमज्जत्सोपानासु Yata14g Ibid. Vol. II p. 166. LL 5. YARER AR:- Ibid. Vol. ! 145. L. yafdag THREGE A T TAGECUT Ibid. II p. 263. L. 3. BUTER T RUERT
Augalai Ha:..... JARHIC: Ibid. Vol. II. p. 236. L. 5. Ibid. Vol. I p. 55. Cp. SSD Bhoja XVIII 1-6, 38, X. 89-102 pp 46-47, 88, 99 originally Edited by T. Ganapatiśāstrī and revised by Dr. V.S. Agrawal.
