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split by her breast raising the bodice by the hair rising with delight; throwing a dazzling glance like a svayamvara wreath,812 urging the King in a voice choking from love, wishing dalliance, she led the King to the pleasurehouse. Enjoying manifold delights there with her, the King spent a thousand years like a day.
March through Khandaprapātā (548–567) After informing Jāhnavi and taking leave of her with difficulty, he went toward Khandaprapātã with a strong force. Then the King with undivided forces went from his abode to the cave, named Khandaprapātā, like a lion from forest to forest. At a distance from the cave Khandaprapātā, very powerful because of his army, he encamped his army. There the King fasted for four days, concentrating his mind on the deity Nāțyamāla; and the deity's throne shook. Knowing by clairvoyant knowledge that the Cakrin Bharata had come there, he came with presents, like a debtor to a creditor. The deity, very devoted to the ornament of the six-part country, brought ornaments and undertook service. Then the King, possessing discernment, graciously dismissed the deity Nāțyamāla like an actor who has finished his play. The King broke his fast, held an eight-day festival in his honor, and instructed Suşeņa, “Open Khandaprapātā." The general concentrated his mind on Nāțyamāla as if he were a charm, fasted for four days, and observed the pausadha-ceremony in the pausadha-house. After leaving the pausadhahouse at the end of the four days' fast, he performed the oblation-ceremony, like the best of ācāryas at a dedication.
Then after making the propitiatory rite of the tilaka and auspicious things, wearing a few ornaments of great
$12 545. A ceremony in which a girl chooses her husband, over whom she throws a wreath.
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