Gahakoso Part 2

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

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162. Sure indication of sincere love :
(The lover :) "Believe me (when I say that I sincerely love you)". (The beloved :) “I would never have believed you, if while I am weeping, my tears, falling on your back (while you are bending at my feet), had not been shattered (or pierced), because of the outburst of horripilation (on your back)".
163. True friend :
endship should be made (only) with a person, who in places and times of calamity, does not turn away his face in aversion) (i.e. remains constant) like a figure painted on a wall.
164. Horrifying :
Embarrassed by the first-ever violation of chastity on the part of the young married woman in the thicket (underwood) on the river-bank, the flock of birds flies up crying out as it were with the (sound of their) (flapping) wings, "how shameful, how shameful !".
165. Maddening fragrance :
Oh young boy, I tell you the truth. Nothing is impossible for the spring-season to accomplish. By the exciting) fragrance of the Kurabaka flowers I have in my mind become a lecherous woman.
166. Like a bird in a cage :
Oh young boy, as you were going away, she, directing her quivering eyes through one aperture after another in the encircling hedge, behaved like a bird in a cage.
167. Helpless :
What could she do (i.e. how could she help it) if she could not see you even though her breasts were pressing against the (tall) enclosing hedge (of her residence) and even though she had raised her languid body on the tips of the toes of her feet (in her attempt to have a look at you)?
168. Painful recollection;
The wife of the traveller, fearing that the stream of tears, welling up at the recollection of her dear consort, would fall on the lamp (and put it out), places the lighted lamp (on the ground) (at the time of the festival of lights), deflecting her neck i.e. head) to one side.
169. Painful parting :
Oh young boy, as you were going away, her limbs (i.e. her neck and head) turned indeed through such a wide angle, that streams of tears were seen falling down right on the middle or her back.