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golden body was dried up by Hemanta. O dear husbad, if you do not return during this Hemanta and console me, then, I idiat, wicked and singul man will you come, when you come to know that I have died?//191.
(The Late Winter-śiśira) In this way I passed the Hemanta season. The Sisira arrived but that rogue of my husband remianed afar. There arose Jhajkad the hot and rough gusts of wind. All the trees struck by them shed their leaves.// 192
They were devoid of flowers and fruits and hence not resorted to by birds. The directions were filled with darkness due to dew and smog. The roads were deserted, as the travellers did not move out being afraid of cold. All the flower plants in the gardnes dried up and became just stumps.//193
Afrald of cold the girls left alone their lovers in the plaintain bowers. They resorted to fire in the the stoves. Love sports were enjyoed in the interior apartment. Nobody now slept under the garden tress.// 194
The men of taste drank to the their heart's content the half-boiled sugarcane juice strongly and variously perfumed. On the excellent festival of Kundacaturthi, some fortunate lofty-breasted married women rolled in their bed (in love sports).//195.
Some give charitable gifts on the birth day of the lord of seasons (i. e. on the begining day of hte spring seasons - the Vasanta -Pañcamī) and for love sports
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