Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.517

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‘As with serpents, Bhogavatī, the wide hall was full of kings;
As the mountain caves with tigers, with the tiger-warriors full.
Damayantī in her beauty entered on that stately scene,
With her dazzling light entrancing every eye and every soul.
O’er her lovely person gliding all the eyes of those proud kings;
There were fixed, there moveless rested, as they gazed upon the maid.
Then as they proclaimed the Rājas (by his name was each proclaimed),
In dismay saw Bhīma’s daughter, five in garb, in form the same.
On those forms, all undistinguished each from each, she stood and gazed.
In her doubt Vidarbha’s princess Nala’s form might not discern,
Whichsoe’er the form she gazed on, him her Nala, him she thought.’
*Mahābhārata*, vi, 53: MILMAN—MONIER-WILLIAMS.