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with her eyes, opened, moistened with tears, with a great difficulty or asking the encaged śarika, taken by her to be one belonging to the period prior to the immediate past, in a sweet voice I hope, O beautiful one! you remember your master for you were His pet [or I hope, you, your master's pet, remember Him],' or having laid a lute on her lap with an unclean garment, mutterIng, with her hair tossing about, a melody, with a desire to sing, with reference to Him, assuming the hereditary appellation of Sambara's family, a song, having words arranged in a particular order, sung in a mournful [ elegiac ] strain, displayed in a voice whipping up emotion [ or feelings of compassion] and expressing deep anxiety or stroking gently the lute with the ends of her fingers delicate like flowers on wiping off anyhow the strings moistened with tears dropping down from her eyes or forgetting time and again the melody though constructed by herself on account of the display of vain anxiety caused by her repeated meditation upon His arrival or drawing figures on the ground by means of the flowers placed at the threshold for counting the remaining months, become calculable even in the regeneration owing to the intrinsic power attained through godhood so as to display as if the occasions of her deaths committed to memory or enjoying in a dream the pleasure of sexual connection, realised as though in action, with Him, the working of which is portrayed in mind, owing to the feelings of sexual intercourse being implanted in her mind or being pacified by her friends through fear roused by her being unconscious, would be falling within the range of His eyesight first-those are mostly the means of alleviating miseries adopted by ladies during the period of separation from their lovers. Being engaged owing to the conversations with her female friends consisting in pleasant words and other things, forming the means of mitigating mental worries, Sambara thought that the separation would not be distressing her with mental sufferings by day as much as it would be afflicting
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| SR No. | 001704 |
| Book Title | Parshvabhyuday |
| Original Sutra Author | Jinsenacharya |
| Author | M G Kothari |
| Publisher | Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 844 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology |
| File Size | 16 MB |