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Separation ? Since how many days your mind was struck by Love. Tell me, o beautiful girl, since when your charming husband went away ?//123-124
Hearing the words of the traveller that girl longeyed girl that incited love recited four Gāthās./125
O traveller, what is the use of asking about the day of my darlings going on travel, when my pleasure was taken away and I got a charter of miseries. Tell me what is the use of remembering the flame of the Separation-fire ? do not take the name of that day. when the left in half a moment.//127
Since that charming one has left, from that day our pleasure is lost. Time, O traveller, is felt in the heart definitely like the god of death//128
May that summer be burnt with the summer fire when my darling left my. May he be dried up by (winds) of the Malaya mountain who dried me up.// 129
The Third Section (Description of Six Seasons)
Summer 0 Traveller, at the advent of summer when my darling went on a travel, my pleasures, offering to me a handfull of water, departed. Going after him to see him off, I returned with my body hot due to Separation. Returning with a perturbed mind and in disarsay, I reached my residence.//130
To me who felt unbearable the displeasure of love's yearning and loss of pleasure, and was
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