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(5.) 
The messenger relates the charms of Ttddhd to Krishn. 
I. 0 Madhab, I saw a matchless beauty. When I saw her I knew that 
my birth had obtained its fruit, and that the desires of my eyes were fulfilled. 
3. I forbid the lightning (to compare itself to her), for it is fickle in 
its brilliancy, and the golden creeper, for it is hard. When he formed her 
body, Brahma at length exhibited his full skill. 
5. When Love’s bow was burned by the eye of Siva, and only a 
filament of ashes remained, Brahma searched for them, and divided them 
into two, and out of them he formed her eyebrows. 
7. Her eyes, equal in brilliancy, destroy the pride of the Khanjan f 
and of the dark eyef of the deer. Brahma^ loved the lotus, and laid his foot 
upon her bosom, (and took up his abode there). 
9. When it saw her spotless lotus face, the brilliancy of the nightly 
moon became dimmed: and when it gazed upon the pride of her two golden 
prbs, the pomegranate broke its heart. 
II. Brahma formed her teeth of pomegranate seeds, and (her lower 
lip), which concealed them, of the bandhulc § flower. King Lakshmisvar SIh 
jmderstandeth her charms, and Harkh Nath singeth them. 
(G.) 
The Toet describes the beauty of a lady. 
1. To-day I saw a fair one ; and lo, when it beheld her dark 
garments so like dark clouds, a sudden flash of lightning played around 
her. 
3. The moon though shining amid the fire of Siva’s eye became 
ashamed, when gazing on her face. For a great man cannot bear to be 
disgraced. 
5. When the Khanjan saw the play of her eyes, which put to shame 
the leaf of the spotless lotus, it became ashamed itself, and took up its 
abode in the forest. || 
7. She knoweth that young lovers would continually steal the gold 
above her heart, and so she hath tightly bound her twin bosom ’neath a 
bodice. 
9. Harkh Nath declareth with all his heart that the lady is matchless. 
“When I saw her beauteous eyes, I knew I had done so as the result of 
penances performed in former births.” 
* The Khanjan Motacilla Alba, is a bird to which eyes arc frequently compared. 
f Lit. collyrium. 
X Brahma is said to have been born in a lotus. 
§ Pentapetes phoenicea. 
|| The poet fancifully attributes the wildness of the khanjan to jealousy caused 
by the play of her eyes. 
