Gahakoso Part 2

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

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313. Unbearable separation :
Like a disease without a physician (to treat it), like a person reduced sto poverty and staying with his friends and relatives), like the sight of the prosperity of one's enemy, separation from you is difficult to endure (for me).
314. Breasts and clouds :
Oh king, none else except the breasts (of your beloved queen) can cover (i.e. occupy or fascinate) your heart which is large (generous), spotless (pure) and lofty (noble), just as none else except the clouds is able to encompass the wide, spotless (clear) and lofty sky.
315. Approaching paramour :
The wanton woman, who had fixed up a secret meeting (with her paramour) uuder a thicket of shrubs, listens to the rustling sound of the old (withered) leaves (fallen on the ground), as they are pressed down by the ends of the feet (i.e. by the soles) (of the gently approaching paramour).
316. Lucky ear-ornament:
The ear-ornament of the dark-coloured beautiful damsel, with its tip slanting downwards, as it were drinks the loveliness in the region of the root (i.e. upper part) of her cheek prominenlty bulging out (i.e. rounded) because of her fully developed youthful age.
317. Lotus-face :
Because of the sweet fragrance emanating from her face, the bees (also, gallants), forming themselves into a circle, rush towards it-a wonderful lotus, which has never known (i.e. sustained) defeat from the moon (as ordinary lotuses do).
318. Heroic effort to suppress tears :
Although she made a supreme effort to control herself, when her dear lover departed on a journey in the midst (presence of the elders (in the family, there escaped from her, as she closed her eyes, a tear which was (till then) clinging to her eye-lashes.
319. Absent-minded :
All her limbs became moist with perspiration on (merely) uttering the name of her charming beloved, while she was briefing the messenger (with a message to be delivered to him), (and leaving her house along with the messenger) she reached the precincts of his residence (along with the messenger, without being aware of it).
320. Painful nonchalance :
The sulking damsel does not distress my heart so much, even when she does not at all speak anything (ie, by her absolute silence), as when she utters indifferent (nonchalant) remarks due to her greatly heightened (massive) anger.