Gahakoso Part 2

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

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him out of anger assumed by you (against him), proclaims to him that your heart (mind) is leaning towards him.
91. Not yet completely appeased :
She knows how to intimate to him that a portion of her anger (though mostly) banished by him with conciliation, is still lingering (in her mind), by behaving towards him with restraint (reserve), even in privacy.
92. Incorrigible sinner :
Oh charming one, oh shameless one, tell me which of your lapses are to be pardoned by me, those that you have committed in the past), or those that you are committing (at present) or those that you will be committing (hereafter)?
93. Key to success with women :
Those who do not make a show of their authority, those who placate their angry beloveds as slaves (placate their masters), they alone are dear to women; the rest are only miserable masters (and not darlings of women),
94. Treacherous bee :
Oh ungratful bee, formerly you were not delighted with other flowers (save the Mālati-Jasmine). But now you have forsaken the Málati (creeper), because it has begun to bear fruit.
95. Insatiable longing :
Oh friend (or aunt), when at that moment I saw him, who was worthy of being gazed at with unquenched longing, my ardent desire to see him was not at all satisfied,"any more than the thirst of a person is quenched by water drunk in the course of a dream.
96. Desolation :
Whichever place a good man adorns (for sometime) (by his stay), that very place, he, by his departure, makes similar to a locality, where a stately Vața (banian) tree in the vicinity of a village has been uprooted.
97. You always stand before my mind's eye :
He alone is indeed remembered who is effaced from the heart for a moment at least. Love which has got to be remembered is already gone, having lost its foot-hold.
98. Love's memento:
The miserable damsel even to this day preserves on her cheek the circular mark of your (biting) teeth, surrounded by the encircling hedge of her bursting horripilation, as if it were a treasure (to be guarded for all time).