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# Nagananda 2.8

Nāgānanda 2.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.2.8)

akliṣṭabimbaśobhādharasya nayanotsavasya śaśina iva /  
dayitāmukhasya sukhayati rekhāpi prathamadṛṣṭayem //

> Jímútaváhana.  
> She was thus addressed: "This moonstone seat, moistened with the water of tears, seems as if oozing with dew from the rising of thy moonface."  
> — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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## Translations (1)

- [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.2.p66) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.2.8) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.other.nagananda-2.1.26) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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