Simhasanadvatrimshika f6.p6

f6.p6

Having thus painted her form endowed with the described characteristics, he delivered it into the king's hand. The king, too, seeing his beloved portrayed in the painting, was exceedingly pleased and gave the painter a fitting reward. Thereafter, the royal preceptor Śāradānanda, seeing Bhānumatī painted on the picture-cloth, said to the painter: 'O painter, you have painted all the marks of Bhānumatī, but you have forgotten one.' He replied: 'O master, tell me what has been forgotten.' Śāradānanda said: 'On her left thigh there is a fish-shaped mark resembling a sesamum seed; that you have not painted.' The king also heard Śāradānanda's words, and in order to verify it, when he looked at her left thigh at the time of lovemaking, there the sesamum-like fish mark was seen. Seeing it, the king thought in his mind: 'How did this man see the fish mark situated in her secret place? Surely he has had intimacy with her; otherwise, how could this be known by him? Moreover, in the case of women, one should not even doubt such things. For: