Gahakoso Part 2

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

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CENTO III
201. Lucky fellow :
Who will be that person, whose hand, a veritable unique tree bearing the fruits of many good deeds (done formerly), will (be privileged to) rest on your expansive breasts, treasure-jars of the God of love, resembling thereby a spray of tender leaves [placed on a treasure-bowl (to identify the place where the treasure-bowl has been buried underground)?
202. Preparation :
"I have to go tonight to the house of that charming lover of mine in dense darkness". (thinking thus) the young lady practises walking with closed eyes in her house.
203. Damaging to one's prestige:
Two things at once! (or quickly) lower a person's prestige, even though he may be as great as a mountain: speaking about one's sufferings to a person who is not tried (or tested) and not speaking about one's sufferings to a person who is tried (or tested).
204. Auspicious jar with a lotus placed on it:
Oh girl, for whom are you looking out, standing at the door, with your face lifted (or pushed) up by your protuberent breasts and hence resembling a sacramental lotus'placed on an uplifted (auspicious) jar?
205. Symbolic :
The Eranda (castor) plant, whose leaves have protruded through the openings in the hedge, proclaims to the young lads: "Here in this house lives a farmer's wife with so large (expansive) breasts".
206. Handicapped by her breasts:
Because of these accursed breasts (of mine), comparable (in their size) with the temples a young elephant, compact (firm), full, closely pressing against each other and protuberent, it is not possible (for me) even to breathe (without effort), much less to walk (all the way to my dear lover's residence).
207. Easy to win over :
Dear boy, turn your lustful desire on a woman, who has been delivered (of a child) since a month, or who has been pregnant for six months, or who has had fever for one day, or who has just left the stage (after a dance or drama).
208. No cause for groaning when the burden is shared by so many :
Why are you groaning (or breathing hard) because of your breasts, which are the (visible) heaps of the jealous anger of your rivals (cowives) (ie. which excite the jealous