[64] 14.
"Mounted upon this beautiful horse-drawn car yoked with a thousand,
this chariot of manifold device,
proceeding about the grounds of the pleasure-garden,
you are like Vāsava, Purindada, the lord of beings.
Both poles of your chariot are wrought of gold,
exceedingly well joined with their boards and side-pieces,
their clusters well formed, finished by heroes among men:
it shines like the moon upon the fifteenth day.
This chariot, overspread with netting of gold,
inlaid with many and various gems,
of delightful resonance and lovely tone,
shines with the arms that bear the yak-tail whisks.
And these hubs, fashioned as if by thought,
adorn the mid-space between the chariot's wheels;
and these hubs, painted with a hundred streaks,
gleam like the hundred-flashing lightning.
This chariot is overspread with manifold designs;
broad are its wheel-rims, with their thousand rays;
the sound of them is heard, lovely in tone,
as a fivefold ensemble of music being played.
The ornament at its head, fitted with clusters of gems,
ever pure, resplendent, radiant,
exceedingly well joined with streaks of gold,
gleams exceedingly with streaks of beryl.
And these steeds, fitted with clusters of gems,
with golden trappings upon their backs, very swift, comparable to Brahmā,
tall, great, strong, and of great speed,
knowing your mind, course even as it wills.
And all these together, four-footed in their gait,
knowing your mind, course even as it wills;
they draw evenly, gentle, never restive,
rejoicing — the most excellent of steeds.
They toss, they prance, they course through the sky,
making their well-wrought trappings quiver;
the sound of them is heard, lovely in tone,
as a fivefold ensemble of music being played.
The rumble of the chariot and of the trappings,
the drumming of hoofs, and the neighing too —
the most lovely sound of that assembled throng is heard,
like the instruments of the gandhabbas, varied to the ear.
Standing in the chariot are they whose eyes are soft as a doe's,
with arched, thick lashes, smiling, of endearing speech,
in nets of beryl, gracefully inclined, of delicate skin,
honoured by the foremost suras together with devas and gandhabbas.
Impassioned, clad in red raiment and yellow garments,
wide-eyed, their eyes deeply reddened,
born of good families, fair of body, sweetly smiling,
they stand in the chariot, attending with palms joined in reverence.
Wearing armlets of gold, beautifully clad,
of lovely waist, endowed with shapely thighs and breasts,
round-fingered, fair of face, lovely to behold,
they stand in the chariot, attending with palms joined in reverence.
Their well-mingled tresses in their several braids,
evenly parted and lustrous,
compliant, they delight in your heart's pleasure;
they stand in the chariot, att
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.