Where the palaces are worthy of comparison to you in these various aspects:
you possess lightning, they have lovely women; you have a rainbow, they are
furnished with pictures; they have music provided by resounding drums, you
produce deep, gentle rumbling; you have water within, they have floors made
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Where the girls fanned by breezes cooled by the waters of the Mandakini river, the heat dispelled by the shade of the mandara trees that grow on its banks, are urges by the gods to play with jewels hidden by burying them with clenched fists in the golden sands and which are to be searched for; Beautiful work by the greatest poet of the age in Meghadootam. Thanks.
Having shrunk at once to the size of a small elephant for the sake of a swift descent, resting on the pleasure mountain with lovely peaks that I have mentioned, please cast your gaze in the form of a flickering bolt of faint lightning upon the interior of the house, like the glow of a swarm of fire-flies. Kalidasa the great Indian poet. marvelous work. tony