Gahakoso Part 2

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

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anger of your rivals), which are jars packed with loveliness, which are the temples (frontal globes) of the elephant in the form of Cupid (God of love) and which are borne (i.e. doted on) by hundreds of men in their minds?
209. Convenient excuse for cancelling the journey:
In the case of a man who is going to start on a journey and who is immersed in the pleasure of pressing (or being pressed by) the firm (compact) breasts of his wife, (even) evil omens, the day of Mars and the Vişti-day (Bhadra) are a cause of jubilation.
210. All this for meeting and greeting you:
For your sake, oh young boy, that poor girl sits the whole day under the arch on the entrance of the house and unceasingly languishes like the garland of flowers hung (by her) across the arch (for welcoming you).
211. Disillusionment :
As the itinerants drew near the dried up banian tree, they laughed and clapped their hands (in wonder and amusement), when a flock of parrots resembling the green leaves and red fruits (of a banian tree) flew up (from the tree being scared by the approaching itinerants).
212. To enable him to see her reaction better:
Oh friend, today I was forced to laugh, when I saw him fall at her feet in that manner (i.e. addressing her by the name of her rival in love), and also when I saw her raising and inciting the (already) burning wick of the lamp (to show to him that she was her own self and not his sweetheart as he must have taken her to be).
213. Inherent nobility:
A good man, striving to accommodate others, maintains an unchanged (ie, cheerful) countenance even while dealing with (his) enemies, and though he is (entirely) his own master, he submits to others because of his (intrinsic) nobility.
214. Clever dissimulation :
Oh young girl even if a man born in a noble family, whose eminence is the result of his wisdom and his (estimable) qualities which lead to his daily growing respectability, becomes estranged (from his beloved), he does not allow it to be noticed by others (but cleverly conceals it).
215. Better hated by the good than loved by the wicked:
Even if one becomes the object of hatred to a person who is eminent because of his wisdom and (estimable) qualities, that is a source of happiness. But even if one becomes. the object of love to a person despised by people, that is something to be ashamed of.