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 and between them are silken swings constructed for the light form of youthful beauty; the yellow jasmine, the graceful málatí, the full-blossomed malliká, the blue clitoria, spontaneous shed their flowers and strew the ground with a carpet more lovely than any in the groves of Indra; the reservoir glows with the red lotus-blossoms, like the dawn with the fiery beams of the rising sun; and here the asoka tree, with its rich crimson blossoms, shines like a young warrior bathed in the sanguine shower of the furious fight."

The fifth act of the same play opens with the following speech of Chárudatta:—