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BOOK XVI : SURATAMANJARI
INVOCATION
CHAPTER CXI
MAY Ganesa protect you, the ornamental streaks
of vermilion on whose cheeks fly up in the dance,
and look like the fiery might of obstacles swallowed
and disgorged by him.
[M] While Naravahanadatta was thus living on that
Rishabha mountain with his wives and his ministers, and
was enjoying the splendid fortune of emperor over the kings
of the Vidyadharas, which he had obtained, once on a time
spring came to increase his happiness. After long intermission
the light of the moon was beautifully clear, and the
earth, enfolded by the young fresh grass, showed its joy by
sweating dewy drops, and the forest trees, closely embraced
again and again by the winds of the Malaya mountain, were
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all trembling, bristling with thorns, and full of sap. The
warder of Kama, the cuckoo, beholding the stalk of the
mango-tree, with his note seemed to forbid the pride of coy
damsels ; and rows of bees fell with a loud hum from the
flowery creepers, like showers of arrows shot from the bow
of the great warrior Kama. And Naravahanadatta's
ministers, Gomukha and the others, beholding at that time
"
this activity of spring, said to Naravahanadatta : See, King,
this mountain of Rishabha is altogether changed, and is
now a mountain of flowers, since the dense lines of forest
with which it is covered have their blossoms full-blown with
1 There is a play on words here. Sanskrit poets suppose that joy
produces in human beings trembling, horripilation and perspiration.
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