Verse 22

²²Dark as a great emerald, its face a lotus full of beauty, its neck like a conch, its chest broad, its nose fine, its brows lovely; ²³the curls at its brow stirring with its breath, its ears with the beauty of a conch and of a pomegranate flower, its nectar smile faintly reddened by the shine of its coral lip; ²⁴the corners of its eyes red as the heart of a lotus, its glance a smile that took the heart; its belly like a leaf, the navel deep, the folds above it trembling with its breath; ²⁵and lifting its lotus foot with hands whose fingers were beautiful, and setting it in its mouth, it was sucking. The chief of brahmins looked at this and was astonished.

²⁶At that sight his weariness left him; the lotus of his heart and the lotus of his eyes opened out with gladness. The hair stood up on his body, and doubting before the wonder of it, he went forward to ask the child.