By glorious marks a king proclaimed:

Like some bright lotus lustrous-hued,

With young Kandarpa's[458] grace endued:

As there like Indra's self he shone,

She loved the youth she gazed upon.

She grim of eye and foul of face

Loved his sweet glance and forehead's grace:

She of unlovely figure, him

Of stately form and shapely limb:

She whose dim locks disordered hung,