Rāmāyaṇacampū 1.21_8
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1.21_8
Because of him we have become, as it were, subordinate to another.
For indeed: / If he at any time ascends a pleasure mountain and walks on foot accompanied by the women of his inner quarters, the lord Sun of a thousand rays, out of fear that a transgression will arise, displaying no scorching heat, contracts his very rays and clings to its peaks.
Even this moon, when the Ten-faced One, surrounded by people bowing with agitation, turns towards the bathhouse to rest from the fatigue of exertion in hunting, generates by the touch of his own rays a completely clear and unbroken stream of water from the spouts of jars made of his own stone held in the palms of new crystal doll-statues fixed at the tops of the most marvelous golden pillars there; and thus for a mere moment he becomes the recipient of his twenty kinds of glances, indicative of favor, which have long been yearned for by Indra.