Verse 44

⁴⁴When his consecration had begun, the Vrsnis wore lotus garlands, bathed and finely clothed, king, and the kings were richly adorned; ⁴⁵and his queens, glad, with necklaces at their throats and finely clothed, anointed, with the vessels in their hands, came to the hall of the consecration. ⁴⁶Drums and kettledrums, conches, horns and tabors sounded; players and dancing women danced; bards and heralds sang his praise; sweet-throated gandharva women sang together with their husbands. ⁴⁷Him, rubbed with ointment and anointed, the priests sprinkled by rule, together with his eighteen wives, as the moon-king is sprinkled with the stars.

⁴⁸With them beside him in fine cloth and bracelets, in necklaces and anklets and earrings, well adorned, he shone, consecrated and wrapped in a deerskin. ⁴⁹His priests, great king, in jewels and silk clothing, together with the men of the assembly, shone as those at the sacrifice of the slayer of Vrtra shone. ⁵⁰Then Rama and Krsna, each attended by his own kin, shone with their own sons and wives: the two lords of the living, with their own splendours.