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674. On the death-bed :
Let not the hamlet talk of ascending the heights of the Vindhya mountain (for safety). The village-chief is still breathing. If he, on regaining consciousness, were somehow to hear about it (i.e. his people's retreat into the Vindhya mountain), he would (perbaps) die (out of shame).
675. The last message:
While on his death-bed the village-chief gives his (last) message to his son with great effort: Behave in such a manner that you do not become known (to people) by my name (i. e. as being my son), (but earn name and fame for yourself by your sterling merit and solid achievements),
676. Superficial and sincere love :
People caring only for external appearance and greedy for flesh took (i.e. purchased) (only) the limbs (such as legs of the slaughtered animal). But the hutsman's wife was not ready to part with the portion of the heart, except to a person who had a genuine desire and admiration for it. She therefore wandered (for long) in the market-place (in search of the wished for customer). [ Side-meaning: People, greedy for carnal gratification seized only the limbs (such as the breasts, lips etc.). But the woman (i.e. courtesan) was not ready to give her heart to any man, unless she was sure that he too would give his heart to her and therefore she wandered in the market-place in search of such a man.) 1
677. Wrong suspicion :
Seeing the mouth of her consort bitten (or stung) by a bee and having its lip swollen, the Pulinda woman possessed by jealousy went away into the shade of another tree.
678. Reward of faithful love :
As she started to follow (her dearest consort) in death he revived from his prolonged unconsciousness and the decoration of widowhood in the case of the noble-born lady was turned into a decoration of supreme good luck (in the form of the revival of her consort).
679. Pastoral mountain-resort :
Blessed are they who live in a mountain-village, where they can give themselves up to carnal enjoyment, without fear (of being disturbed by any body), where the houses are surrounded by hedges with luxuriant foliage and where the thickets of bamboo-reeds swing this way and that being rocked by breezes.
680. Pastoral mountain-resort :
The mountain-villages here have Kadamba trees planted in the yards of houses in full bloom, clean-washed stone-platforms in house-yards), and peacocks dancing with joy, and are lovely with the murmuring sound of the running (mountain-) streams.
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