The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 68
abhavacchayitā hi tatra kācidviniveśya pracale kare kapolam |
dayitāmapi rukmapattracitrā kupitevākagatā vihāya vīṇām || 5.48
48. One was lying there, resting her cheek on her trembling arm; leaving as in anger
her lute, though dearly loved, which lay on her side, decorated with gold-leaf.
vibabhau karalagnaveṇuranyā stanavisrastasitāśukā śayānā |
juṣaṭpadapaktijuṣṭapadmā jalaphenaprahasattaṭā nadīva || 5.49
49. Another shone with her flute clinging to her hand, lying with her white garments
fallen from her bosom, — like a river whose banks are smiling with the foam of the
water and whose lotuses are covered with a straight line of bees. 1
navapuṣkaragarbhakomalābhyā tapanīyojjvalasagatāgadābhyām |
svapiti sma tathā purā bhujābhyā parirabhya priyavanmdagameva || 5.50
50. Another was sleeping, 2 embracing her drum as a lover, with her two arms tender
like the shoot of young lotus and bearing their bracelets closely linked, blazing with
gold.
navahāṭakabhūṣaṇāstathānyā vasana pītamanuttama vasānāḥ |
avaśā vata nidrayā nipeturgajabhagnā iva karṇikāraśākhāḥ || 5.51
51. Others, decked with new golden ornaments and wearing peerless yellow garments,
fell down alas! helpless with sleep, like the boughs of the Karṇikāra broken by an
elephant.
avalabya gavākṣapārśvamanyā śayitā cāpavibhugnagātrayaṣṭiḥ |
virarāja vilabicāruhārā racitā toraṇaśālabhajikeva || 5.52
52. Another, leaning on the side of a window, with her willow-form bent like a bow,
shone as she lay with her beautiful necklace hanging down, like a statue 3 in an
archway made by art.
maṇikuḍaladaṣṭapatralekha mukhapadma vinata tathāparasyāḥ |
śatapatramivārdhacakranāḍa sthitakāraḍavaghaṭṭita cakāśe || 5.53
53. The lotus-face of another, bowed down, with the pinguent-lines on her person
rubbed by the jewelled earrings, appeared to be a lotus with its stalk bent into a halfcircle,
and shaken by a duck standing on it. 4
1 The bees represent the flute held in the lotus-like hand.
2 I would read tathāparā.
3 Śalabhajikā?
4 This is a hard verse, but the women’s face above the bent body seems to be compared to the
duck standing on the flower and bending the stalk.