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deprived of even a job of festival. I thus addressed each one, but not for a moent any one consoled me. // 166
Those women who have their husbands at home near them, they perfomr the Rasa dance in the streets. They adorn themselves with various ornaments, put on varied, attractive garments, put on a sharply designed Tilaka-mark, besmear their body with saffron and sandle-paste move carrying a beatury-box in their hand, sing divine, charming songs, fumigate with great devotion, the cow-pans and horses stables. Seeing this I became depressed in my mind as my deisre remaied unfulfilled.//167-169
Thereafter I saw the directions stranglely more attractive. I felt like being thrown in fire The flames of separation flared up in my mind and I recited a Nandim, a Gatha and a Brahmaravali.//170
Svans and Cakravakas, with their thorats... tangs of fresh lotus fibres and hene clear, cry in the water. Moving with excellect gait is admirable: this appears like the tinkling of the anklets of the autumnal Beauty.//171
In the months of Asvina by the cries of Sarasa from the big river difficult to ford and makng the legs stageer due to speed of its stream I was made to weep miserably again and again // 172
At might in the moonlight the mansions and lofty ramparts appeared spotless, attractive and very beautiful. But the autumn freed from dust behaved
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