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your command, like governors of forts, on the two sides of Vaitādhya in the north and south halves of Bharata.” At the end of the speech to this effect, King Vinami bowed with folded hands like a man wishing to ask for something, though he wished to give.
Then he gave his own daughter, named Subhadrā, a woman-jewel who was like Sri made permanent, with a form perfectly symmetrical as if made by using a measure; made from a mass of brilliance of the jewels of the three worlds, as it were ; highly adorned by youth with beautiful hair and nails, as if by attendants always present knowing their duties; curing all diseases, very powerful like a divine herb; with a touch cool or hot at will like divine water; dark in three places, 811 fair in three, red in three, high in three, deep in three, broad in three, long in three, slender in three; surpassing the tails of peacocks with her mass of hair, superior to the moon of the eighth day with her forehead, possessing eyes that were pleasure-pools of Rati and Priti, and a nose like a long stream of water from the ocean of loveliness of her forehead; graced with cheeks that were like new golden mirrors, and with ears, like swings, touching the shoulders; with lips that resembled twin bimbas and teeth surpassing in beauty a row of small diamonds; her neck, as well as her waist, marked with three lines, and her arms straight as a lotus-stalk and soft as a lotus-fibre; possessing breasts like the festival pitchers of Kāma, and a waist slender as if the thickness had been presented to the breasts; bearing a navel-circle like the whirlpool of a river, and a row of hair like a row of durvă-grass on the bank of the pool of the navel; adorned with broad hips like the couch of Manobhū, and with thighs like the golden pillars of a swing; surpassing completely (in slenderness)
811 519. The 32 lakṣanas of men are enumerated in the KSK. 1.9, p. 21; but I have found no category of strilaksanas that agrees with these mentioned. The Sāmudrikaśāstra, pp. 12 ff. discusses 16 strilaksanas, but from a different point of view.
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