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(4) ‘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 account of the collection of gems, groups of the lotus faces of beautiful women fair as the moon (grāma-nagara-kheḍa-kharvvana-madamba-droṇa-mukha-pura-patta-na-rāja-dhānī), on whatever side one looked, in these nine forms did the Kuntala-desa shine.’
(It should be noticed that the passage within brackets is almost identical with the corresponding passage in quotation no. 3 above).
(*Ep. Carnat.*, Vol. VII, Shikārpur Taluq, no. 197; Transl., p. 124, para. 1, last seven lines; Roman Text, p. 214, line 27 f.)