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(10) “ With myriads of people, practices of virtue, agreeable occupations, streams of the (nine) sentiments, pleasure gardens, separated lovers, splendid tanks, full lotus-beds, gilded boats for spring festivals, ghaṭikā-sthānas (religious centres), the supports of dharmma and mines of enjoyment, moats which were as if the sea being overcome had returned here on accouut of the collection of gems, groups of the lotus faces of beautiful women fair as the moon, (grāma-nagara-kheḍa-kharvvaṇa-maḍamba-droṇamukha-pura-pattaṇa-rājadhāni), on whatever side one looked, in these nine forms did the Kuṇṭala-deśa shine.”