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________________ APPENDIX 581 62. and decorated by streaks outlining the musk deer after dispelling the surrounding darkness. 61. The moon as it rises first looks like a coral, then like a mirror in which the ruddy face of an excited young girl is reflected and finally completely white. "When the light of the moon descends (on the earth) the shadows cast by the trees, the interstices of whose branches are gently shaken by the (evening) breeze, put on (assume) the dark-white appearance of ponds (art) full of blue and white (night blooming) lotuses (lilies 3744, 25). 63. Ah ! the pleasing touch of the white rays of the rising moon, radiant like the laughter of a young, charming woman, which looked brownish when on coming in through the round windows, they mingled with the light of the lamps and also dusky on account of the sandal wood that was burning there. 64. All the things necessary to welcome him are already at hand, the bed has been made still she tries to make it again; the message is carefully couched in correct words and the girl who had started to go to convey it, is stopped again. 65. She would still have one more sip of wine and another look at herself in the mirror and ask the messenger girl to repeat over again the talk with the lover, thus repeated it excited her feeling. 66. The merry young women apply collyrium to their eyes; fasten girdles on their waists, and paint a mark with sandal paste on their forehead; and although they are solely absorbed in thoughts of the raptures of their prospective sexual union with their lovers, they nevertheless feel disturbed by their anxious fears. 67. As the Night-bride withdrew and the starlets fell from her hair under his feet, the Daybreak arrived to the announcements of the fragrance of the flowers in tripping steps (? or driving away darkness ?). 68. As a young woman is leaving the bed with one foot planted on the ground (at the early hour of the day) and the lotusface turned towards the lover at whom she casts a side glance--still heavy with desire through the corner of the eye-My, my, what a glance ! 69. The carefully decked up ladies for the Festival of Love do not look really beautiful till the mango blossom with its spray overhanging the cheeks is not worn in the ears. For Private & Personal Use Only Jain Education International www.jainelibrary.org
| 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 |