Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 020873
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 706
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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44. THE SECTION ON THE LOVE-SKCK WOMAN
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421) That is a (dreary, desolate) forest and not a village wherein there are not two or three female messengers clever in speaking in a beautiful (or expansive,sprightly) manner and bringing with them news (information) about women of easy virtue.
44. The Section on the Love-sick Woman 422) The young damsel, on hearing your name, moves about in the bed-chamber, sprinkling as if, with the water of the moisture dripping from her broad (expansive) loins (Thot pudendum).
423) Oh lucky one, while she, yearning for union with you and wishing for good luck (in the form of securing you as her consort), has been offering hurdreds of prcmises ard assurances to the gods (on fulfilment of her desire), she has not attained even to the gods.*
424) Oh lucky one, she, while looking for you, her cheeks blooming with joy, was for long wandering about (absent-mindedly) demanding (or looking for things where they were really not: (i.e. expecting to find things where they could not be expected).
425) Disregarding other youths and, oh young man, trans-- gressing the limits of propriety, she now wanders about, 'straining her eyes towards the quarters for your sake (i, e. scanning the horizon with her eyes in the hope of seeing you.)
426) Oh fortunate one, that slender damsel's eyes with tears welling up during your separation (or because of your separation), ale dripping with tears, as if because they are filled with : smoke from the fire of grief residing in her heart.
427) Oh good fellow, after that youth had departed, her eyes sent out (by her) across the region of the hedge (in order to follow him), have been dripping with tears since then even upto this day, as if because they were riddled with (and bruised by) the thorns of the hedge.
428) Oh ruthless one, on remembering you, she wailed giv-- ing out sobs in such a manner that, alas, tears streamed from the eyes of even (otherwise) happy people (at her sight).
• Sense of last quarter obscure. Commentary does not help.
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