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the bosom of spring, the dropping of beauty from his first- shooting 

 moustache, his pride on beholding his shadow, and the reflection 

 of his shape as bright as the sun. 



TJday-hhdn sitting upon his Throne. 



The bridegroom Uday-bhan seated himself on the throne, and on 

 this side and on that Raja Indra and the Jogi Mahandar Grur assem- 

 bled with their trains. The father of the bridegroom standing 

 behind his son with beads in his hand began to mutter something, 

 and the dance began. In the air all the attendants of the Court of 

 Indra who had come on the flying couches danced with expressive 

 action, forming, as it were, a roof over the spectators' heads. The 

 two queens, the mothers of the bride and bridegroom, embraced 

 one another, and sat on an upper floor behind sandal wood doors 



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