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Song and music playing five times a day,* 



Mounting ten thousand horses 



With golden hoofs and jewelled trappings. 



A lord of countless elephants, 



A valiant army thirty lakhs strong ; 



A sole ruler wielding Siva's bow, 



Holding the earth in his sway. 



Ten sons and daughters all told 



Chariots of beautiful colours, very many 



Storehouses, countless millions of wealth 



Had he, Padam Sen, the victorious prince. 



4. Padam Sen, the virtuous prince, 

 In his house was a well-born dame, 

 From her breast a daughter sprung 

 Beauteous as a digit of the moon. 



5. Fair as a digit of the moon, 



Fairer than the whole sixteen digits ; 



In her childish guise she rivalled the moon 



When he has drunk the amrit juice. 



Like a lotus expanding through love of the moon-dew. 



She had stolen from the deer the glance of its eyes. 



She had [the beauty of] the diamond, the parrot, and the limb. 



A pearl from head to foot, glittering like a serpent. 



6. [This sixth stanza wants a line or two in my copy, and is hope- 

 lessly corrupt and unintelligible as it stands. I can make out allu- 

 sions to the lotus, to Kama, the god of love, to her name Padmavati, 

 to her " swan-like gait," but nothing connected.] 



7. She had all the auspicious marks [on her body], 

 Well she knew the sixty-four arts, (^f*n) 



She knew the fourteen sciences, (^3TT) 



She was like the Spring among the six seasons. 



8. Playing about witli her companions 

 In the gardens of the palace 

 Her eyes lit upon a parrot, 

 Then her mind was joyful. 



* At his palace gate, as is (lie custom with Indian princes. 



