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________________ APPENDIX 575 (TENTATIVE and FREE) TRANSLATION (Part II) 1. Why should the night not pine away when she sees in the evening her lover, the Moon embracing the East after kissing the face of the beginning) of the Night-fall and then going in the company of Jyotsna (Moonlight) to meet the West, his other sweetheart ? 2. As the eyes reddened by the early morning bath fail to show the colour of passion, soft like that of young foliage, even so the eyes dimmed by doting passion fail to show signs of anger in them. 3. There rose the columns of smoke, the shock of hair of the rows of trees, fluttering banners of Madana spreading fragrance, the sailing clouds screening the moon's rays, deputies of darkness. 4. The long day bright with the jewel of the sun in its hood slithered away to the West sloughing off the oppressive heat of the noon. 5. The day falls like a trunk; the sun looks bloody like the throat slit with a knife; the twilight drips blood; and the darkness rolls away like a severed head, a black hairy ball. 6. If outward show of courtesy pleases, and if it is mistaken for true affection then indeed there is no difference between genuine affection and pretended affection. 7. Her friends are pretty helpless; they cannot speak for me. She has clearly seen with her own eyes the love's offence I was committing. Naturally it has caused her terrible pain. Now Madana (the God of love) and the Moon (light) alone can come to my help and appease her anger in their silent persuasive way. 8. The beloveds were deprived of the pleasure of being appeased by their man; they couldn't even pain their feet by kicking their lovers. All their anger was dissolved by the moonlight as errand-girls normally do. 9. In the meantime, the night that had patched up her quarrel with her husband, given free scope to her repressed desires and like a friend greatly encouraged her to enjoy the pleasure of sex, passed. 10. When the beloved damsels looked at the wine, the god of Love lifted up his bow, when in excitement they took it up he bent and slipped the loop of the bow-string into the notch ready for use and when they had a sip he fitted For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org Jain Education International
| SR No. | 001868 |
| Book Title | Studies in Jain Literature |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | V M Kulkarni |
| Publisher | Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre |
| Publication Year | 2001 |
| Total Pages | 114 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English, Literature, & Story |
| File Size | 14 MB |