Gahakoso Part 2

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

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17. Blessing on a young calf :
Oh young calf, having the tawny complexion of tender leaves protruding from a sprouting mango-stone and proceeding with pricked up ears to the house dear to your heart, may you (eventually) attain to the status of an eminent steer.
18. Apology :
Oh charming one, who are simulating sleep and are (merely) closing your eyes, give me (sleeping) place (near you, on your bed). Oh you whose cilia are standing on their ends as I imprint a kiss on your cheek, I shall never again be late (in coming to you).
19. Hasten to your lover before his interest in you flags :
Go to his house, just without finishing your personal decoration, while yet he is taking keen interest in you (and is yearning for you). If you allow his interest in you to flag, you will not obtain, oh dear girl, a footing in his mind.
20. The forbidden hasty kiss :
I remember (still) her (hurried) kiss as her face was smeared with (yellow) coloured ghee (because she was in her menses), the kiss in which she lowered her lip to me solicitously and in which her nose did not touch mine nor did her forehead come into contact with mine.
21. Double personality :
During amorous dalliance (at night) she gives hundreds of commands (to me), her cheeks blooming with joy (all the while); and at day-break she bends down her face in bashfulness. I cannot believe that she is the self-same beloved (that she was at night).
22. False politeness :
(My) sal utation to your nobility of birth, which urges you to bear both these heavy sorrows, viz. separation from the object of your real love and seeing the object of your hatred.
23. Irresistible appeal :
Even a single dark, spotted deer turning (from the left hand side) to the right hand side (of the road) (while being pursued by a hunter) stops a traveller from proceeding (with his intended journey). How much more so, when both the tearful (dark and white coloured) eyes of the beloved one (meet the prospective traveller on the eve of his departure)?
24. You have been untrue to me, I have never been to you:
You would certainly not have assumed stiffness (haughtiness) F(towards me) :(when I scolded you for your infidelity), if you had known (by personal experience) the agony (of others) on slightly waking up in the midst of their sleep and on feeling (with their hands) the portion of the bed (near them) vacated (by their consorts).