Verse 38

³⁸In that palace, his greatness undiminished, held by love of his beloved, his body tended by the women of the sky, he shone, beautiful, like the lord of the stars standing in the sky, ringed by stars, with the night-lilies open below him. ³⁹In that palace he went where the eight world-guardians take their pleasure, and to the valleys of Meru, king of the great mountains, made lovely by winds that are friends of the bodiless one and loud with the kind sound of the river of heaven falling. Praised by the perfected ones, he took his delight there long, like the giver of wealth among his troop of women. ⁴⁰In Vaisrambhaka, in Surasana, in Nandana, in Puspabhadraka, in Manasa and in Caitrarathya, he took his delight, in love with his lovely one.

⁴¹With that shining palace, mighty and going wherever he wished, he outdid those who travel the sky, moving through the worlds like the wind. ⁴²What is hard to come by for men whose hearts are unbound, who have taken hold of the foot of him whose feet are a ford, the ending of all trouble? ⁴³Having shown his wife the globe of the earth, how far it goes and how it stands, and its many wonders, the great yogin turned back to his own hermitage. ⁴⁴Dividing himself into nine, he gave joy to Manu's daughter, who was eager for love, and delighted in her, and heaps of years went by like a moment. ⁴⁵On that palace, lying on a fine bed made for love, joined to her beautiful husband, she did not notice that time passing at all.

⁴⁶So, while the two of them took their pleasure by the power of yoga, a hundred autumns went by, and to them, hungry for love, it was a little while.