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ARIŞTANEMI'S SPORT, INITIATION, OMNISCIENCE 257 wearing collyrium with charming gośirşa-sandal, got into a chariot with white horses. Princes by the crore went in front of Prince Nemi, the skies being deafened by the noise of the horses' neighs. At his sides were kings mounted on elephants by the thousand. The Daśārhas, Govinda, Muśalin were in the rear. All the women of the harem, placed in very magnificent palanquins, went singing auspicious hymns, and other noble women, also.
Thus Śri Nemi set out on the king's highway with great magnificence, with panegyrists reciting auspicious things aloud, (going) in front. The glances, tender with affection, of young women perched on roofs of houses and shops on the road, fell on Nemi, like auspicious parched grain. Being pointed out to each other by the citizens and being described with interest, Sivā's son went to Ugrasena's house. Lotus-eyed Rājīmati became very eager at the noise of Nemi's arrival, like a peahen at thunder. Friends, knowing her heart, said to her:
“You are fortunate, fair lady, of whom Nemi, the handsome one of three worlds, will take the hand. Even if Nemi is coming here, nevertheless, we, very eager, will stand in the window and watch for him coming, lotus-eyed lady.” ... Delighted at the naming of her secret desire, Räjimati went in haste to the window, surrounded by her friends. Wearing a hair-dress with jasmines inside it, like a cloud with a moon; surpassing lotus-ear-ornaments with her (lotus-)eyes; with pearl-oysters defeated by her ears wearing pearl earrings; her lower lip with lac, like a bimba with ripe bimbas; wearing a gold necklace on her neck, like a conch with a gold band; her breasts marked with necklaces like cakravākas with lotus-stalks; looking, with her lotus-hands, like a river with lotus-plants; with a waist that can be grasped with (one) hand, like Manmatha's bow; charming with hips like a golden slab; with thighs like a plantain tree and shanks like a deer's; with nails like jewels; wearing a fringed white garment, anointed with gośīrşa-sandal, she sat in the window like a goddess in a 33 N
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