Lilavaikaha

SR No.: 001424
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K R Chandra, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1988
Total Pages: 150
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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828. She was not happy in the company of her friends; she did not teach her parrots and Särikäs (to speak), did not wear ornaments and did not (want to) hear songs sung.
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S. T. Niwkar
832. Thus, observing all this, one day in the evening, having arranged for privacy, I asked her, "Listen! my friend !
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She did not (wish to) collect flowers in the palace-garden with (all plants and) creepers in blossom and she did not take any interest in swimming in the palacc pool.
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She did not have much regard for Rajja (i.e. entertainment) nor did she play with dolls to her heart's content, though. without sleep, she did not leave her bed even for half a
moment.
She did not enter the dancing hall nor climbed the pleasuremountain; she was not happy in the fountain-arbour and did not want to have (any) food.
You do not feel happy with anyone, do not talk to (or address) your attendants even when seen and do not trust me also; or, enough of asking you (anything) at all !" 835. Hearing from me these words made harsh by loving resentment (lit. anger), Lilavati said, "O dear friend! how will I not tell you?
How is it that, as if practising Yoga, since that day, you never get tired as if looking at something painted in your mere imagination and difficult to look at (for others) ?
Certain especially charming affairs do not give so much pleasure when witnessed alone as they do when related to friends.
Even if the special pleasures of meeting with beloved are experienced in privacy, when they are told to friends later, they spread their foliage (as it were) !
838-841. So listen! I will tell you; among these kings, this one that is painted seems to have the lustre of burnished gold, has his body adorned by the tendrils in the form of tender,