Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 02

SR No.: 006960
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 768
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
or personal adornment so long as his interest in you is keen - once you let it sag you will lose any approach to his heart.
468. Look, how beautiful is the part of the young woman's breast which has been
left uncovered by her blue choli, like the disc of the moon that is coming slowly out of the rain cloud.
469. Looking forward to the Spring-festival and going about the streets of the
village like this be careful, dear daughter. Some suspicious character may set you a riddle and that will baffle you (floor you).
470. He felt confused as he awkwardly fumbled for the knot of my lower garment;
it had slipped down. I laughed and held him in a tight embrace.
471. On whichever part of the body, the brother-in-law desires to strike her with
a tender creeper, on that part of the young bride's body appears a crop of goose-flesh (lit. long line of horripilation) showing excitement and pleasure.
472. Her friends advised her that she should continue to be jealous and angry.
This she had (carefully) kept in her mind so far but it is now being exposed to the forceful arrows of Madana (the God of Love) that make holes in it and reduce it to tatters.
(Verse 473 is treated in the Notes.)
474. Although the bridegroom is making haste please delay the wedding till the
nail-marks on the body of the bride-to-be grow pale and indistinct.
475. Young man, when I asked your sweetheart whether she really loved you she
swore she didn't and put on such a smile that it made us (i.e. me) weep.
476. If they disapprove, well, let them. People do fuss over the other world. But
as for me, my dear friend, my eyes cannot but turn towards the place where my young man lives — the village-chief's son.
477. How did you go? Did he meet you? What did he say? Did he agree? She
wouldn't stop asking her endless questions.
478. Right under the nose of her husband they took her away to the place of
her lover who is a physician. She pretended to have been stung by a scorpion,