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Translation 590 Vessantara-Jåtaka
[Fausbøll, Jåtaka, vol. VI, p. 590]
Queen Phusatī said also, "Henceforth let my daughter-in-law be robed in these robes, and
wear these ornaments!" These she sent her in boxes. This the Master explained thus:
"Garments of cotton and of silk, linen and cloth so fine
Her mother-in-law to Maddī sent which made her beauty shine.
Necklet and bracelet, frontlet-piece, foot-bangle, jewelled zone
Her mother-in-law to Maddī sent, wherewith her beauty shone.
And when the princess passing fair her jewellery surveyed,
She shone, as shines in Nandana the goddesses arrayed.
With washen head and ornaments and goodly robes to see,
She shone, like to some heavenly nymph before the Thirty-Three.
As when in Cittalatā Grove 1 the wind a plantain sways,
The princess of the beauteous lips looked lovely as that tree.
Like as a brilliant-feathered bird that flies the airy ways,
She with her pretty pouting lips and beauty did amaze.
1 One of Indra's gardens.