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where will the innocent fawn-eyed lady be? Indeed, she must have been held up by some thief when that obedient lady, leaving me behind might have got up for making water. She must have been carried off by him. She might not have spoken, suspecting my destruction. Otherwise, how is she not seen ? By her disappearence I believe the preservation of my life as fruitless,” Thinking so, he proceeded to find her. He took his bath in the Rijupālikā.
On this side, that Chandarudra, having gone away from the temple, went to the river Rijupālikā. He thought, "O how alarming is the nature of women that this woman all of a sudden throwing off her husband in the nether world of great miseries and rejecting her own family has proceeded with me who am not previously seen even in a dream !
Alas! How thoroughly women have gained a victory over the acts of poison, tigers, serpents, lions, sarahas, the iron age, fire, a demoness and the god of death. (24)
A woman is muddy without water, a tigress without a cave, the brows of the god
