Gahakoso Part 2

Author(s): Madhav Vasudev Patvardhan, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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558. Cling to her and leave me alone :
Let her, who is skilled in all enticing blandishments divorced from genuine feeling, alone make love with you, who regard yourself to be very clever. Enough of our (i.e. my) making love (with you).
559. Ungrateful :
He for whose sake, oh dear friend, I set aside modesty, transgressed the bounds of morality and caused defamatory remarks to be made (about me), that dear one has now become indifferent towards me.
560. Love-hungry glances :
How long and in what measure will my conjugal happiness last, while it is being openly before my eyes) robbed (or plundered) by (other) women's side-long glances, hungry with sexual desire, my dear consort being fickle-hearted (or unsteady in his love) ?
561. Once in a blue moon in his wife's arms :
Do you embrace me closely, suddenly awakened by the cry of the cock in the early morning) that you are. Do not be nervous in your own house, thinking (or suspecting) that you are sojourning in the residence of some other woman (than your wife).
562. Excellent opportunity :
Who (possibly) will tell him (i.e. my paramour) that the vicious dog is already) dead, that the mother-in-law is intoxicated with festival-wine (i.e. wine prepared for the festival by the neighbours and presented to her) and that the wooden barricade (of the compoundwall) of the house has been smashed by the buffalo ?
.563. Alluring but dangerous :
The robbers cast again and again their nervous and covetuous glances at the lofty breasts of the hero's wife (abducted by them), as at a treasure-bowl guarded by a snake.
564. Healing medicine :
The sulking lady drinks (or sips) drop by drop the wine transferred by her beloved consort to her mouth from his own, grasping her tresses and forcibly raising her mouth, as if it were a healing medicine against her sulkiness.
565. Close embrace :
The Vindhya mountain, being pressed (or nudged) by the beauty of the rainy season with her breasts in the form of the clouds, has his limbs adorned with the rapturous ruffling of the cilia in the form of the new grass-shoots.