Simhasanadvatrimshika 29.2

29.2

ity āśiṣam uktvā rājānaṃ stauti: bho rājan,
yathā sarati jīmūtaṃ mayūro grīṣmapīḍitaḥ,
tṛṣitaḥ pṛcchate toyaṃ, tathā 'ham tava darśanam. || 2 ||

Then he praised the king, thus: “O king, 2. As the peacock, overcome with heat, goes to the cloud and in its thirst calls upon it for water, so do I come to look upon you. Tho I dwell on the slope of the Himālaya, even from there I have heard of your glory and have come from afar. The earth with its seven seas is adorned with your glory. For thus (it is said): 3. The earth with its seven seas is made completely luminous by your majesty, which is more resplendent even than the white camphor plant, or the white lotus, or the budding jasmine, or the waves of the heavenly river, or the ketaka tree, or the coquettish glance of a beautiful woman, or the quantity of cooling rays sent forth from afar from the (moon-crest on the) head of the Remover of Blemishes [Çiva].