Note 2 — The Gem Yaksanī
H. (Henry) Parker translation
The light that he saw was caused by her brilliance. See the end of No. 204, vol. iii. In the Kathā Sarit Sāgara (Tawney), vol. i, p. 16, a beautiful girl is described as having “a face like a full moon, and eyes like a blue lotus; she had arms graceful as the stalk of a lotus, and a lovely full bosom; she had a neck marked with three lines like a shell, and magnificent coral lips; in short she was a second Lakshmī” (the Goddess of Prosperity). ↑