Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 68
54. Others, lying as they sat, with their limbs oppressed by the weight
of their bosoms, shone in their beauty, mutually clasping one another
with their twining arms decorated with golden bracelets.
55. And another damsel lay sound asleep, embracing her big lute as if
it were a female friend, and rolled it about, while its golden strings
trembled, with her own face bright with her shaken earrings.
56. Another lay, with her tabour,
57. Others showed no lustre with their eyes shut, although they were
really full-eyed and fair-browed, – like the lotus-beds with their buds
closed at the setting of the sun.
58. Another, with her hair loose and dishevelled, and her skirts and
ornaments fallen from her loins, lay with her necklace in confusion,
like a woman crushed by an elephant and then dropped.
59. Others, helpless and lost to shame, though naturally self-possessed
and endued with all graces of person, breathed violently as they lay
and yawned with their arms distorted and tossed about.
60. Others, with their ornaments and garlands thrown off, –
unconscious, with their garments spread out unfastened, – their bright
eyes wide open and motionless, – lay without any beauty as if they
were dead.