- and trees of every description are adorned with varied flowers, like archers arrayed in all their various kinds of panoply; here and there stand the magnificent forest-trees, looking like the several encampments of warrior chiefs.

The koels’ voices are like the trumpeting of his infuriated elephants; the cranes and rooks are his camels and mules; the peacocks, partridges and parrots are his noble war horses; the pigeons and swans his Arab steeds;

- the sand-grouse and quails are his foot soldiers; but no tongue can describe the whole of Love’s host; the mountain rocks are his chariots; the rills his kettledrums; the pied cuckoos the bards that chant his virtues;

- the buzzing bees are his trumpets and clarionets; the winds, soft, cool and fragrant, are his ambassadors. Thus with his army complete in all its four limbs (viz., the horse, the foot, the chariots and the elephants), he goes about challenging all to battle.

O Lakshmana, they who stand firm even at the sight of Cupid’s battle-array are men of distinction in this world. His greatest strength lies in woman, he who can escape her toils is indeed a mighty champion!

Brother, there are three evils most formidable of all-lust, wrath and greed. In an instant they agitate the souls of sages that are the very repositories of wisdom.

The power of greed lies in desire and vanity, of lust in nothing but woman; the power of wrath lies in harsh speech; so declare the great sages after deep thought.’