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VIMALANĀTHACARITRA
93 Incarnation as Vimala (11–228)
Description of Kāmpilya (11-14) Now in Jambūdvīpa there is a city Kāmpīlya, the ornament of Bharatakşetra, like a piece of heaven that has fallen. Its shrines present the appearance at night of houses with shower-baths from the water dripping from moon-stone puppets. Golden pinnacles shine on the top floors of its houses, like golden lotuses always attached to the abode of Sri. The row of various mansions and palaces shone like a picture of Vidhātp (Brahmā) creating the city of the gods.
His parents (15–24) Its king was Kộtavarman, 134 like an adamantine armor for those who, defeated by fate, had come for protection. The water of the Gangā and his glory, delighting the earth on all sides as if in rivalry with each other, reached the ocean. He never turned away from petitioners, as well as enemies. He was always turned away from other men's wives, as well as from censure by others. In battle enemies could not endure the light of him who was the sun to the earth, as if they had emerged from darkness. Always the shadow of his feet, like the shade of a large banyan tree, was attended by kings who became hunchbacked from bowing.
He had a wife, Syāmā, like night to the sun, the faceornament of all the harem. She was like the Srī of the family incarnate; like wifely fidelity embodied; like the chief divinity of beauty, grace, and charm in person. The queen walked slowly, slowly, always, like a marālī, as if her mind were occupied with meditation on her husband. As she had no equal among mortal women, so the divine Srī or Saci deserves her friendship. Wherever the mistress walked on the earth, there happiness followed always, like night followed by day.
184 15. With a play on his name. Varman means 'armor.'
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