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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XXXV
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In advance, Parvati, wreathed with flowers, has come to salute Siva.

Uma's joyous face is bent in salutation, one knee resting on the earth.

This is the position depicted in the painting.
As she bends her head, one or two flowers escape from the wreaths fastened in her hair.

In the distance Cupid, half hidden by the woods, one knee touching earth, his beauteous bow bent, is fitting to it the flower-wreathed arrow.
In another picture, Ram, returning from Lanka with Janaki, both sitting in a jewelled chariot, is coursing through the sky.

Ram has one hand on the shoulders of Janaki, with the other is pointing out the beauties of the earth below.


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