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TAYING in that mansion, that intelligent monkey, the ing of the Wind-god, beheld that splendid zrial car, eous with excellent jewels, and furnished with windows rnished gold. And the car, embellished with transcendy beautiful figures,—belauded by Vicwakarma himself nstituting the acme (of his art),—which, mounting the an, looked like a mark of the Sun’s orbit,—appeared . ndent. And there was nothing in that car which was ade skilfully ;—nothing that did not look like a precious (sprung spontaneously on its person)—and the style yed in its various parts surpassed anything that could und in the cars of the celestials themselves,—and everyin that car was executed in the highest style of excel- —(that car) obtained (by R&vana) in virtue of prowess x from asceticism and contemplation (of the Deity); le of repairing wherever (the owner) wished to wend; ying various kinds of constructive skill; composed of ials procured from diverse sources,—such as were worthy celestial car; fleet-coursing in consonance with the f its master; incapable of being approached ;* equal the wind in celerity; the source of happiness unto ious, high-souled, and pious ones—possessors of ; fineless’t and high rapture; coursing through the 1ent in a variety of ways,—the congeries of all wonderful ‘ the impious. Another reading is duravaram—incapable of being rd by the enemy.—T. de Othello.—T.

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things,—adorned with ranges of chambers; captivating to the mind ; stainless as the autumnal Moon ; furnished with splendid summits, like the crest of a mountain; which was borne by rangers of the night, given to mighty meals, ranging the sky, with faces graced with ear-rings; and by thousands of ghosts possessed of terrible speed, having expansive, winkless and rolling eyes. That heroic first of monkeys saw that excellent car, beauteous with vernal blossoms,—fairer than the month of spring and furnished with flowers.