Book Title: Gahakoso Part 2
Author(s): Madhav Vasudev Patvardhan, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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________________ 146. Beyond rebuke : Let alone what people are talking about the dilution of your love for me). Your own heart itself can bear testimony (to it). Your love for me has become so feeble that you are no longer worthy of rebuke. 147. Beware, oh my heart : Oh my heart, you who are running (here and there, just) according to your sweet will, are longing for a person difficult to secure and are wandering on the aerial paths, you will, some time or other, be broken to pieces (i.e. you will break yourself on account of despair). 148. Reasons of the consort's (or lover's) indifference : Either my good qualities are (after all) inferior (poor) (in their appeal); or that person (i.e. my consort or lover) does not know how to admire them; or I am devoid of all good qualities; or he has some person (ie, a sweetheart) who is more copiously endowed with good qualities. 149. Impervious mind : Oh my friend, even though my heart is bursting (with lovelonging), how can I reveal that (i.e. my suffering) to that person in whom the sorrow (of others) does not enter, just as the image does not enter a mirror (soiled with dust or water--vapour) ? 150. Cupid's bullets : Oh my friend, none of the other flowers torment me as much as the Kadamba flowers. Surely Cupid carries during these days (of the rainy season) his bow charged with bullets (in the form of the spherical Kadamba buds). 151. Emaciation due to separation : The crow suspecting (or dreading) that a noose has been laid to catch it, does not desire (to eat) the morsel (or lump) of food though offered by the wife of the traveller, because the morsel (or lump) of food stands in the midst of her bracelet which has slipped down the inclined (down-ward turned) palm of her hand. 152. Speechless testimony: His handsomeness was undoubtedly proclaimed by her teardrenched face, with its eyes turned away from (all) other men, although she did not say a single word with her mouth. 153. Well-meant fraud : Her friends, apprehending the approach of the stipulated day (of her husband's return home), secretly erase two or three of the (vertical) lines, while she was engaged in etching them (on the wall of her apartment) (in order to keep a count of the days passed by her in his absence) Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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