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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt:... srfa softer ran 1 fenite Hh m tisife f RR TTt ft%Ht fep I 47 advantage; the thing thou desirest to accomplish I do not esteem. Crooked persons are generally wretched, disfigured, and of distorted countenances, but thou, (though) crooked, rescmblest the' pistillum of a water lily, pleasing to the sight. Thy breast is straight from thy throat to thy face; thou art erect from thy breast downwards; thy belly is rotundated so that thou canst sustain cloathing; thy hips are full, and thy breasts plump; thy mouth fair as the moon. O Munthwra, thou art beauty itself; thy waist, adorned with a string, is very beautiful; thy thighs are long, and thy legs slender, O Mwnthwra attend. When thou stalkest before me thou % fafesir vgrarai: Hsw t 11. appearest like the Tittibhee.i O beautiful to behold, in thy protuberance, resembling that on the shoulders of an ox, reside understanding, consummate policy, and wisdom capable of guiding a monarch. The thousand illusive powers which were in Shumvura, king of the Usooras, with thousands of others, center in thy heart. I will therefore, O deformed one, present thee with a necklace of gold. O beautiful one, Bhwrutrt being installed, and Rama gone into exile, when my desires are succeeded, and I obtain confidence, I will cover thy protuberance with refined and burnished gold; thy face will I decorate with 1 Abird. The legs of this bird are immoderately long and slender compared with its body. The Hindoos say, that when it thunders, this bird lies on its back with its legs upwards, thinking to prop up the sky with its legs if it should burst; and therefore, when a person undertakes to avert an evil which is beyond his power, they compare him to the Tut/bhee propping up the sky with its feet. 2 She had been hith!o a poor sl...