Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.59

3.59

First the beauty of blue silk, then the splendor of a waistband set with emeralds, / then a pattern of musk-paste, and for an instant the rival of a garland of blooming blue lotuses, / and afterwards resembling glistening collyrium—such did the smoke born from the burning of the Ten-faced One's city / then become upon the hips, breasts, waists, necks, and eyes of the women of the quarters. ..59..