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SUSHMA KULSHRESHTHA & ABHA KULSHRESHTHA
SAMBODHI
minds of men in the month of caitra :
आलम्बिहेमरसनाः स्तनसक्तहाराः
कन्दर्पदर्पशिथिलीकृतगात्रयष्ट्यः । मासे मधौ मधुरकोकिलभृङ्गनादै
र्यो हरन्ति हृदयं प्रसभं नराणाम् ॥८
Beholding the mountains, the regions of whose summits are resonant with the sweet notes of delighted cuckoos, people experience great pleasure :
नानामनोज्ञकुसुमद्रुमभूषितान्तान्
हृष्टान्यपुष्टनिनदाकुलसानुदेशान् । शैलेयजालपरिणद्धशिलातलान्तान्
दृष्ट्वा नतः क्षितिभृतो मुदमेति सर्वः ॥१९ The importance of the sweet music of cuckoos is enhanced by the spring breeze. Shaking the blossoming branches of the mango-tree and spreading in all quarters the sweet notes of the male cuckoo, the spring breeze, pleasant due to the cessation of dew-fall, is blowing, pilfering the hearts of men :
आकम्पयन् कुसुमिता: सहकारशाखा
विस्तारयन् परभृतस्य वचांसि दिक्षु । वायुर्विवाति हृदयानि हरन्नराणां
नीहारपातविगमात् सुभगे वसन्ते ॥२°
The sweet notes of the cuckoo are capable of striking the hearts of even the high-minded ladies, what to say of ordinary women. The hearts of women are made to quiver by breezes fragrant with blossomed mango-trees. The sweet notes of the intoxicated male cuckoos and the black-bees' appealing music are pleasant to the ears :
आकम्पितानि हृदयानि मनस्विनीनां
वातैः प्रफुल्लसहकारकृताधिवासैः । उत्कजितैः परभतस्य मदाकलस्य
श्रोत्रप्रियैर्मधुकरस्य च गीतनादैः ॥१ Generally, ladies feel pride over their one or the other possession. But spring season mocks at the damsels' excellent words with the enjoyable, sweetly indistinct notes of the cuckoos, the beams of their teeth in smile, with the lustres
