Gahakoso Part 2

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

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290. Silent dialogue:
He spoke (to me) in the presence of (other) people, by means of his eyes dilated (sparkling) with joy. I (too) of course (just) consented (or responded) to him by means of my limbs drenched with continuous and profuse perspiration.
291. Unfulfilled desires :
(Loving) couples remain plunged in (or undergo) sorrow, their yearnings intensified because of the affection revealed by the reciprocal messages (sent through messengers), but their desires unfulfilled.
292. Your face betrays you :
If, oh friend, he is not your darling, why is it that when his name is uttered, your face becomes dilated like a lotus blooming because of contact with the rays of the Sun ?
293. Love-embrace :
Hail, oh friend, to the act of love-embrace, which like a stormy wind demolishes the tree of sulkiness, which sends a thrill of pleasure through the entire body and which is the prelude to the drama of carnal enjoyment.
294. Self-admonition :
Oh my heart, you who are reassured (fearless) because of inferring (the mental condition of others) from your own, have mercy on me now and forbear. Oh you who are attached to a person who does not know the true condition (of others) (i.e. who cannot understand the pangs of separation suffered by others), why do you degrade (humiliate) me (by making me dote on him)?
295. Disillusionment :
Your husband, complimenting (you) (on the loveliness of your face), laughed for quite a long time at the ascetics who had offered to your face (in the evening) a votive handful of flowers mistaking it to be the moon, and then felt embarrassed (on hearing the compliment paid by your husband to your lovely face).
296. Unable to hold out any longer :
Oh friend, as their glances sent out under some pretext, after their quarrel, by chance met each other, both of them began to laugh simultaneously.
297. You know best the reason:
Oh young man, when I am questioned (by my friends or relatives) about my daily shrinking limbs, even though you are within the range of my eyes, I do not know what and to whom I shall say (i.c. I do not know what reply to give to any body), (because of your misdeeds which are the real cause of my emaciation).