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CHAPTER NINĖ it like another pearl necklace around Nemi's neck. Satyabhāmā and others, clever, knowing Hari's intention, approached Sri Nemi with various ornaments of flowers. One, touching him with the tips of full, high breasts, bound Nemi's braid of hair with beautiful wreaths of flowers from behind.
One wife of Hari, the creeper of her arm raised, her arm-pit visible, standing in front of Nemi, put a wreath on his head. One, taking hold of his ear with her hand, arranged an earornament on Nemi's ear, like a flag of victory of Smara. One fastened ever fresh armlets on Nemi's upper arm, again and again, with the intention of wasting time in sport. So they decorated Nemi suitably for the season, but Śri Neminātha made no change toward them. Thus engaged in various sports day and night, Janārdana returned to Dvārikā with his retinue.
Samudravijaya was always eager for the festival of Nemi's marriage and the other Daśārhas also, and Sārngapāņi. Spring passed while Hari and Nemi played and the hot weather came, making Smara strong,237 as well as the sun. Even the heat of the morning sun became unendurable, like Sārngin's splendor; even at night the heat was not allayed, like people's karma. Young men put on two soft white garments, resembling the inside of a plantain-skin, scented with musk. Women did not lay aside for a moment the palm-leaf fan moving to and fro like the flap of an elephant's ear, as well as Manmatha's teaching. Young men sprinkled themselves again and again with sandal-water, its fragrance doubled by the juice of various flowers. Lotus-stalks, put on their hearts by women, acquired fragrance superior to ropes of pearls. Pressing them very closely with their arms again and again, the young men did not let them go from their chest, like a sweetheart wet with water.
So in the summer terrible with heat Kțşņa and his harem went with Nemi to a pool in the garden Raivataka. Viņņu
237 69. Because it increases heat in the body: pitta.
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