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280. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1391.296) supra.
281. As she walked towards her husband's funeral pyre, he was revived from his
unusually long spell of unconsciousness, and her widow's weeds were transformed into the decoration of a happy wife.
282. The anger of the proud women intensified by love disappeared (or vanished)
after a long time from their hearts, pleased for a moment by the earnest requests of the lovers, but saddened and tormented again by the remembered lapse (or offence).
283. Her husband gazes at her face and she too feels elated by seeing him. He
believed himself to be the most blessed of men and she too believes herself to be the most blessed of women on this Earth.
284. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (979.225) supra. 285. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (225.90) supra. 286. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1085.282) supra 287. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (310.107) supra. 288. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1522.318) supra 289. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1524.319) supra 290. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (123.66) supra 291. For translation vide ŚP. S. No. (459.137) supra 292. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1492.313) supra 293. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (645.170) supra
294. On the occasion of the Holi festival young maidens take part in running
competitions and desire the farmer's son to smear in mud their entire body with his own hands.
295. The moon-faced girl kicked the aśoka into blossom as a fulfilment of its longing
and freed it from the stigma of barrenness the Creater had put on it, and (proudly) wore in her hair the fresh flower of (the same) aśoka.
