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Asokaṅkuraṃ hi āditova tanurattaṃ hoti, tato dvīhatīhaccayena ghanarattaṃ, puna dvīhatīhaccayena mandarattaṃ, tato taruṇapallavavaṇṇaṃ, tato pariṇatapallavavaṇṇaṃ, tato haritapaṇṇavaṇṇaṃ.
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74. For that to begin with is pale pink; then in two or three days it becomes dense red, again in two or three days it becomes dull red, next [brown,] the colour of a tender [mango] shoot; next, the colour of a growing shoot; next, the colour of pale leaves;
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Tato nīlapaṇṇavaṇṇakālato paṭṭhāya sabhāgarūpasantatimanuppabandhāpayamānaṃ saṃvaccharamattena paṇḍupalāsaṃ hutvā vaṇṭato chijjitvā patati.
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After it has become the colour of dark green leaves, as it follows out the successive stages of such material continuity, it eventually becomes withered foliage, and at the end of the year it breaks loose from its stem and falls off.
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