Verse 6

¹With pearls, with garlands of flowers, with fine cloths, with golden archways and with deeply fragrant incense, the city was dressed in one place after another. ²Its lanes and squares and roads were wet with sandal and aloe water, and it was honoured with flowers, whole grains, fruit, young shoots, parched rice and burning lamps. ³It was set off with plantain trunks in their clusters and with young areca palms, and decked on every side with garlands of leaves and fresh twigs. ⁴The people came out to meet him with lamps and offerings and every good thing gathered together, and with them girls freshly bathed and wearing bright earrings.

⁵With the sound of conches and drums and the chanting of the priests, the hero entered his house, praised as he went, and with no pride in him. ⁶Honoured, he honoured them in return, in one place after another, this townsman and that man of the country: a king of great renown, glad, and giving what was dearest and best.