Skandapurana 2.1.4.39.2

2.1.4.39.2

dīrghau ca komalau bhadre bhujau te puṣpadaṃḍavat .. 14 ..
pṛṣṭhaṃ te vedivadbhāti vilagnamṛju madhyamam ..
kaṃṭhastu rakto dīrghaśca skandhau cāvanatau śubhe .. 15 ..
mukhaṃ prasannaṃ satatamakalaṃkaśaśiprabham ..
kapolau kanakādarśasadṛśau kuṃḍalojjvalau .. 16 ..
tilapuṣpasamākārā nāsikā te śubhānane ..
akalaṃkāṣṭamīcaṃdrasadṛśo'timanoharaḥ .. 17..
dṛśyate'yaṃ lalāṭaste nīlālakasuśobhitaḥ ..
mūrdhā te samavṛttaśca snigdhāyatakacānvitaḥ .. 18 ..
smitasaṃśobhidaśanaṃ biṃbādharasamanvitam ..
mukhaṃ te viṣṇuyogyaṃ syāditi me niścitā matiḥ ..19..
nābhiste dakṣiṇāvarta āvarta iva gāṃgajaḥ ..
tvaṃ hi kṣīrābdhisambhūtā lakṣmīriva hi dṛśyase .. 2.1.4.20 ..
.. śrīvarāha uvāca ..
ityuktvā pūjitastābhirnārado'ntardadhe tadā ..
etacchrutvā'tha tatsakhyastāmūcuḥ padminīṃ sakhīm ..21..
atha padmāvatyāḥ svasakhībhiḥ sākaṃ puṣpāṭavī gamanam .. ..
vanaṃ gacchāma puṣpārthaṃ vasantaḥ samupāgataḥ ..
karṇikārāśca cūtāśca caṃpakāḥ pāribhadrakāḥ ..22..
palāśāḥ pāṭalāḥ kundā raktāśokāśca puṣpitāḥ..
padminyaḥ sindhuvārāśca mālatyo yūthikālatāḥ..23..
kahlārakaravīrāśca saṃgharṣādiva puṣpitāḥ ..
puṣpāvacayanaṃ kurmo vane'sminsumanohare ..24..
ityuktvā tā vanaṃ jagmurākāśatanayāyutāḥ ..
puṣpāṇyāharamāṇāstu vicarantyastatastataḥ .. 25 ..
kaṃcidgajeṃdraṃ dadṛśuḥ śubhradantadvayojjvalam ..
gaṇḍabhittitalodbhūtamadadhārādvayojjvalam..26..
unnataṃ kariṇīyūthaiḥ samupetaṃ rajojjvalam ..
phūtkāripuṣkaraprodyacchīkarāpūritānanam.. 27 ..
dṛṣṭvā codvignahṛdayā vanaspatimupāśritāḥ ..

Long and tender, O auspicious lady, are your arms like stems of flowers. // 14
Your back shines like an altar, slender and straight in the middle. / Your neck is red and long, and your shoulders are sloping, O auspicious one! // 15
Your face is ever cheerful, with the luster of the spotless moon. / Your cheeks resemble mirrors of gold, radiant with earrings. // 16
Your nose has the form of a sesamum blossom, O fair-faced maiden! / Extremely enchanting, resembling the spotless eighth-day moon, // 17
this forehead of yours is seen, richly adorned with dark locks of hair. / Your head is evenly rounded and endowed with glossy, long hair. // 18
Your mouth possesses teeth that shine with a smile and is endowed with bimba-like lips. / Your face is worthy of Viṣṇu: this is my settled judgment. // 19
Your navel turns clockwise like a whirlpool born in the Gaṅgā. / Indeed, you appear just like Lakṣmī arisen from the ocean of milk!" // 20
Śrī Varāha said: / Having spoken thus, worshipped by them, Nārada then disappeared. / Hearing this, her female companions said to their friend Padminī: // 21
Now Padmāvatī's departure to the flower-forest with her companions:
"Let us go to the forest for flowers; springtime has arrived! / Karṇikāras, mangos, campakas, and coral trees; // 22
palāśas, pāṭalas, kundas, and red aśokas have blossomed! / Lotuses, sindhuvāras, mālatīs, and yūthikā creepers, // 23
kahlāras and karavīras have blossomed as if in mutual rivalry! / Let us gather flowers in this delightful forest!" // 24
Having said this, they went to the forest together with the daughter of Ākāśarāja. / Gathering flowers and wandering here and there, // 25
they saw a king of elephants shining with two white tusks, / lustrous with two streams of rut emerging from the slope of his temples, // 26
lofty, accompanied by herds of female elephants, shining with dust, / his face covered with fine spray issuing from his blowing trunk. // 27
Seeing him, with agitated hearts, they took refuge near a large tree.