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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

BOOK XXVI
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BOPP, from the Scholiast.] [Footnote 13: p.4.l.2.

_--shone she with her faultless form_.

Sri, or Lakshmi, the goddess of beauty and abundance, at once the Ceres and the Alma Venus of India.
Daughter of ocean and primeval night, Who fed with moonbeams dropping silent dew, And cradled in a wild wave dancing light .-- Sir W.JONES's Ode to Lacshmi.] [Footnote 14: p.4.l.4.

_--never mid the Yaksha race_.

The Yakshas are demigods attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth, descendants of Kasyapa by his wife Khasa.


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