Gahakoso Part 2

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

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233. Noble even in misfortune :
The mind of a proud-spirited person, just continues to remain exalted even in the last stages of his life (i.e. even when he is on the point of dying). The rays of the sun flash upwards even when he is setting.
234. Nobility consists in beneficence and not in mere self-sufficiency :
Oh mother, even a bird fills its belly (i.e. feeds itself ). It is, however, only noble persons, if at all, who are able to bear fearless (undaunted), the burden of lifting up those that are plunged in distress.
235. Wordly-wise people :
People who know the truth (of things) are not won over except by sincerity. Who can deceive an old cat with rice-gruel (as a substitute for milk) ?
236. Spontaneous love is not based on mutual obligations :
All the grass and water (needed by them) is obtained by the deer and does by each one's own (individual) and unaided effort from the forest. And yet they love each other (unchangingly) till the last moment of their life.
237. Indiscretion or overfondness :
Even to him who does not ask her (about it), she says "he has smashed my bangless". Either the poor woman is too simple-minded (foolish), or he is (extremely) dear to her.
238. Vain denial :
“Give her to him who is ardently desired by her heart. Oh aunt, do you not see that she is wasting away in her body)"? “How possibly can there be any one desired by the heart in our case (i.e. in the case of virgins like myself)"? Saying thus, the maiden fainted away.
239. For cooling off the summer-heat and for removing fatigue :
On the chest of her fatigued husband, who has already had amorous dalliance with her on a summer afternoon, she (i.e. his wife) places her moist luxuriant tresses from which flowers are dropping and which are still fragrant because of the cosmetics used in bathing (prior to the amorous dalliance).
240. Fresh tooth-marks on the glossy cheek :
This moon here, as it rests in the form of a reflected image on this fawn-eyed lady's (glossy) cheek accompanied by the ring of the still moist (fresh) tooth-marks (made by her consort), resembles a small plate carved out of a conch-shell and reddened with vermilion-powder.