Verse 18

¹⁴Then they fasted and bathed, poured the oblation into the fire, gave to cows and brahmins and living things, and had the rites of good fortune performed for them by the twice-born. ¹⁵They put on new cloth, each as he liked, and all of them, decked out, took their places on kusa grass whose tips were laid toward the east. ¹⁶With the gods and Diti's sons seated facing east, in a hall made sweet with incense and set about with garlands and lamps, ¹⁷into that hall, king, she came: her thighs tapering, her hips in bright silk, her walk unhurried, her eyes unsteady as with drink, murmuring with the chime of golden anklets, her breasts like jars, the pitcher in her hand.

¹⁸Gods and antigods alike were bewildered by that smiling glance as they gazed at her, a friend of Sri, her ears with their golden rings and her nose and cheeks and face all lovely, called the highest deity, the end of her breast-cloth slipping away.