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He spilled it as his hands broke contact when the sight of Gauri’s reflected face made him tremble; but his profuse sweat filled them up again. Victory to Shiva’s handful of water!*

His moon is beautified by contact with the dawn that is the lac on the foot of his angered beloved; his rock-like neck has a golden line, as if it were a touchstone, from the gold of her bracelet. Victory to Shiva!*

Victory to the digit of Hara’s moon! It filled out the half-moons of Gauri’s toe-nails, added a second anklet to her ankle, and turned into a chain of love around her lower leg.*

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May you receive blessings from the eye of Lotus-Eyed! It was covered by Shri’s hand, but in the form of the lotus it re-emerged from the hollow of his navel, as if to look at her thighs.*

Victory to Vishnu’s chest! Black, it acquires a redness from the saffron of Shri’s breasts, and since it is decorated by the sun-like kaustubha, it looks like the sky at dawn.*

Victory to Vishnu’s chest! It bears the kaustubha and thus reflects the body of his beloved; when Lakshmi looks into it as if into a mirror, she seems to be making love topsy-turvy.*