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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
overtakes him, it being the promised day of his return.
(Verse 1349 is treated in the Notes.)
(Verse 1350 is corrupt and obscure.)
1351. When some other wayfarer was coming she began to look at him from
her window thinking that it was 'he'-her own beloved. But seeing his face the grasswidow burst into tears and made her maiden friends too weep.
1353. A young girl saw in her dream that her lover had come to meet her. She
awoke for a fraction of a moment but remained in her bed with her eyes closed hoping to see him again and this way she spent the whole day. (Cf. VJ S.No. 27.25)
1354. For translation vide ŚP S. No.(320.109) supra
(Verse 1355 is treated in the Notes.)
(Verse 1356 is treated in the Notes.)
1357. The wedding bangle so carefully looked after by the grasswidow suddenly
broke (snapped) as the arm of the lady grows thick and fat at the unexpected return of her dear husband.
1358. When the son-in-law arrived, the pretty young girl, newly married and shy,
cast a sidelong glance and there was perspiration all over her body and joy in her heart.
1359. When the newly married girl saw her husband returning home, her bangles,
'expanded through sheer joy and slipped down in the very presence of her elders: she started cursing those poor bangles.
1360. For translation vide SP S.No. (623.166) supra
1364. Sītă was sorrowful when she caught sight of it, and began to tremble as
the demons brought it nearer and fell into a swoon when they said it was Rāma's head.
1365. The ploughman's son, who is deeply distressed because his wife has passed
away, looks at all the places in his house associated with their love-making
