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CHAPTER THREE like a younger brother of the aerial car Pālaka in magnificence. He had platforms made, which resembled aerial cars, inside the pavilion and each one was beautified by a golden lionthrone placed on it. The kings came there, rivals in magnificence, wearing divine ornaments and garments, like Sakra's Sāmānikas. All sat down on the platforms, their bodily splendor diffused, charming with cleverness displayed by varied and numerous actions.
One, a paryanka 115 being made from his upper garment, played with a toy-lotus in his hand, charming with waving leaves. Another smelled the fragrant jasmine flowers, like a bee, as if they were the spotless orb of Manmatha's heap of glory. One threw up in his hand a ball of flowers, as if wishing to make another moon in the sky. One stroked his beard, which was wet with oily musk, gracefully, with the tips of his finger-nails every moment. One made a dagger, whose ivory hilt was held in his fist, dance in his hand bejeweled with a blazing ring and with a firm fist. One clever one, haughty-minded, tore up pandanus leaves repeatedly and fashioned a lotus which resembled Kamalā's lotus. One touched frequently a necklace hanging around his neck formed of pearls as large as myrobalans.
At her father's command Davadanti came there, decorating the marriage-pavilion, like a deity a temple. When the kings had seen Davadanti whose body was adorned with sets of ornaments made of pearls and gems, like a blossoming jasmine; her hair curled like waves of running canal-water; having a tilaka on her forehead like a crown-prince of the sun; her hair black as collyrium; the breast-circles uninterrupted; wearing clothes that resembled the skin on the inside of the plantain; anointed with clear sandal-paste; long-eyed; they cast their eyes on her alone.
Then the door-keeper of the harem at the king's command
115 325. Paryanka is an ascetic posture and also means, 'a cloth wound round the back and loins and knees while so sitting.' Apparently, the king used his uttariya for that effect.
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