Gahakoso Part 2

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

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634. Smouldering bon-fire :
While the boys (urchins), vying with one another in the matter of bringing grass and twigs of trees, are running towards the root of the enclosing hedge and are occupied with collecting splinters of wood, the bon-fire (kindled by them already on the occasion of some festival) keeps on burning idly (i.e. keeps on smouldering, without blazing).
635. Shelter her from the sun's heat with your body's shade :
Forbear, forbear, give up jesting, oh brother-in-law of the Nāyikā). This (or that) poor lady (the Nāyikā) is without any cover (to shelter her body from the heat of the sun). She perspires even in the cool (shadow of your body) (when you are standing near her). (How much more then, when you go away and she is directly exposed to the heat of sun ?) Therefore you should again make shade for her (by standing near her).
636. Built-in warmth :
What need has that man for a garment (or clothes), for fire and for a sheltered residence, on whose bosom his wife with warm (or warming) breasts is resting ?
637. Cold heat :
For the lotus-beds the winter is hot (i.e. causes them to wither), while it is cold to people (in general). Who here in this world knows the essentially diverse nature of things?
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641. Cold heat :
People though concealing themselves (i.e. their real intentions) are known (revealed) by their actions. The winter is established as hot by its burning effect on the lotuses (i.e. by its causing the lotuses to wither).
642. Winter-nights :
Who would not have a craving for ihe greatness consisting in (i.e. indicated by) the (apologetic) conciliation (made by one's dear consort, if (only) there were not the winter-nights which strike at the root of one's haughtiness?
643. Internal heating 1
In the winter, the way-farer, who is (wandering abroad) homeless and is whitened (or dusky) with the fine particles of snow, begins to perspire on recollecting the face of and his wife, and his cold vanishes altogether.