Pari's Hill Is Partial to Dancers

Purananuru 111

The great black hill
is a strange place indeed:

inaccessible to kings
who fight with spears,

yet open to any girl
with a drum in her hand,

her eyes lined with kohl
blueblack as the water lily,

if she should come
singing.
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Kapilar
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