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slipped away like the city of Hariscandra (fabled to be suspended in the air).
20.
In all eagerness I snatched somehow the pleasure of kissing your bimba-like lips for a moment. But the (cruel) fate deprived me of it the next moment as it deprives bee of sucking the juice of flowers.
21.
“Don't be shy, o fine-eyed one, let me comfortably behold your lovely and moonlike round face"--you said in sweet words but you cheated me. Where have you, O cruel one, gone ?
22.
Citralekhā, the daughter of Kumbhānda (the minister of Bāna) who was her friend holds Usā, the daughter of Bāņa by the hand, Uşā who was lamenting in these and many other words and asks her the cause of her lament.
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"O Uşā, you are talking simply nonsense, you are still a maiden, how can there be your lover now (at this age) ? You are a young maiden (only) ! Are you, O Uşā, suffering from a hysterical fit? Don't talk absurd. Take courage.”
24.
"Who is that young man that torments and for whom you are wailing and weeping ? Tell me whether it was all a dream. Don't hide (the secret) from me, my girl.”
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Thereupon the daughter of Bāņa replies in these words : "I'll tell you, O Citralekhā, the truth; in a dream I saw a certain commendable young prince - dark in complexion like the Tamāla tree with a very dark bark.
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