Gahakoso Part 2

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

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99. Love's mania :
Let alone the heart-ravishing and extremely invaluable glimpse of the face of the beloved (sweet-heart). Even the outskirts of the site of her native village immediately enrapture, as soon as they are beheld (by the lover).
100. Unromantic :
My consort (while abroad on a journey) must have witnessed the mango trees (sprouting and blossoming); he must have inhaled the fragrance of wine; he must have (also) endured the exciting) southern breeze. But to him only the tasks undertaken by him are of paramount importance. Oh friend, who in this world sincerely loves whom ?
CENTO II
101. Even a moment's separation appears endless like an eon :
After enjoying my intimate company he walked away only a foot-step and then returned and embraced me. During that short moment's interval I felt like a woman whose eonsort has gone away on a (distant) journey and he himself) appeared to me like a traveller gone abroad on a (long) journey.
102. True love, the result of past religious merit :
It is (only) in consequence of abundant earlier religious merit that one becomes privileged to secure (the love of) a person who is so handsome as to be worthy of being gazed at with insatiable longing; whose joys and sorrows are identical with one's own; who bestows his or her genuine love on one; and with whom one has a reciprocal bond of emotional attachment.
103. Love transforms pain into pleasure :
A person who is dear to one, though he may be causing suffering, does really make one (supremely) happy. The breasts of a woman though tormented by the scratching nails of her dear consort (during amorous play) experience a thrill of ecstasy.
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104. Unworthy people are highly honoured :
Even illiterate persons who do not know how to move their lips correctly (while speaking) are held in high esteem by people as if they were possessed of real greatness and are carried by them on their shoulders, like the weighing balances of goldsmiths which though not marked with figures (to indicate the weight of the valuable things weighed with them) are yet carried on the shoulders (i.e. are handled with care and caution) (by the goldsmiths).