Verse 13

¹³Once there was a consecration there for a great sacrificial session, and a gathering, best of men, of the dwellers in heaven, of brahmin sages and of royal sages. ¹⁴When all the worthy there had been well honoured, each as he deserved, he stood up in the middle of the assembly like the moon among the stars. ¹⁵Tall, his arms full and long, fair-skinned, his eyes red as a lotus, with a fine nose and a fine face, gentle, his shoulders full, his teeth good when he smiled; ¹⁶his chest broad, his hips wide, his belly folded and shapely as a leaf, his navel a whirlpool; full of force, his thighs golden, his feet arched high;

¹⁷his hair fine and curling and black and glossy, his neck like a conch. He put on a costly cloth of the best weave and drew another across his shoulder, ¹⁸and with the beauty of every limb thus shown, his ornaments laid aside for the vow, wearing a black deerskin and holding kusa grass, he did what the occasion asked. ¹⁹His eyes cool and soft in their pupils, the lord of the earth looked all around him and spoke, as though to gladden the assembly. ²⁰His words were lovely and varied, smooth, polished, deep and unfaltering, spoken for the good of everyone there, as though he were only saying again what was already known.