Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
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

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582 STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE 70. The lower lip looks beautiful with kissing, the sparkling eyes look beautiful with heart felt joy; it is the lover alone who really decorates a young woman. In vain do young women decorate themselves with other aids of beauty. 71. A few decorations painted on the face, followed by the lover's passionate embrace should be enough for young women whose minds are set on their lovers. 72. The young women with their due attention to their costume, without their maiden companions and keen on receiving their lovers, stand inside unperceived and gaze at the pathway by which their lovers are expected to come. 73. My beloved has drawn in a picture young women whose hearts are affected by the passion of love and faced with immediate separation, they seem to have turned away from their assumed jealous anger as their goose-flesh (=horripilation) indicates. 74. The young women, with their eyes full of passion look at their lovers without any constraint and their tormented lovers feel tremendously satisfied by these looks which they prize very much in their hearts. 75. The young women set out to meet their lovers but grew tired by the long walk; they would have liked to rest for a while but their amorous hearts were so set on meeting their lovers who had already gone ahead to their meeting place that they would not allow themselves any rest. 76. When the lovers for some reason turn away from their women, these despondent women who could not take their eyes off their doors, send first their messenger girls to their residence but in their impatience themselves follow them. 77. After going halfway the young women turned round to have a look at their lovers who were now clearly visible in the first rays of the moon--they couldn't launch on their adventures of love in the later part of the evening but the light of the moon induced them or was the inspiration. 78. Although the idea of rising from their seats to do honour to their lovers crossed the mind of the young lovely women who were delighted by their (unexpected) visit, at the very moment (of their visit), their bodies (the bodies of the young lovely women) which were languid on account of intoxication were not able to put it in practice. 79. At the unexpected arrival of their lovers, the young women, who were