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V. 9 What scope is there for inquiry (or investigatior) when the universal path of the good is eternally established ? Women, earning their livelihood by (selling) their lovely person, are created (by God or Nature); but how is it that such men too are not created ? (It is absolutely useless to discuss this point for the reason given in the first half.)
Russia Tor-Requisites for a (charmed) circle. : Milk of a tigress recently delivered, fanito Bright yellow pigment (1991) from the horns of a Camarı (Camara=A kind of deer) living in the Vindhya (forest).
n i The first flow of ichor or the juice that exudes from the teoples of the forest or wild elephant.
geta Fire from the funeral pyre of a bald-headed youth about 16 years old.
ou gaan - This is a stage-direction. (It means "Whispers in the ear' Read the following from Nāțyadarpaşa (p. 30):
उक्तत्वाद् वक्ष्यमाणत्वाद, भूयः कार्याद् यदुच्यते ।
तत् कणे श्रावयेद् येन, न याति पुनरुक्तताम् ॥ ___ उक्त पूर्व वक्ष्यमाणं पुरः प्रकाश्यमानं, प्रयोजनवशाद भूयोऽपि यद् वृत्तमुच्यते ततू पुनरुक्तताभयात् पात्रस्य कर्णे कविः श्रावयेत् । तथा च दृश्यते 'कणे एवमेव' ।
P.17, AT A TA TATAPTI: I Don't take the trouble of rising (from your bed) to do honour (to us).
V 10 Her bracelets are made of lotus-fibres, her breasts are contindously being sprinkled with sandal-water, her bed is made of tender lotusleaves; her necklace too is made of (the interior of) plantain tree; her body has (i.e. she wears) an excessively wet garment; her courtyard is graced with the canopy of Jasmine creepers; this dress of hers Indicates her dangerous condition on account of the malady of separation (from her lover).
V. 11. Having created his lovely (lit. slender) figure the Creator (methinks) stopped further creation. Otherwise how is it that there is no such lovely or handsome figure (form) to be seen here !
AFTER Longingly.
V. 12. If somehow Rati were to see this incomparably lovely form, I am sure, she would slacken her bond of love for Madana !
V. 13 Resolution or determination (or human effort) is itself an incomparable ornament decorating men (lit. men's form, body). If in addition they possess handsome form then the ladies (with whom they fall in love) have really triumphed.
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