Gahakoso Part 2

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

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321. Appeal to Cupid :
I shall worship your feet with my life, oh Cupid, for the duration of the next) twenty lives, if you just now) pierce him (whom I love) with the self-same arrow with which I have been struck by you.
322. Reconciliation :
I (still) remember the pleasurable sensation that I got from the pressure of her plump breasts, when she, though at first lying on the bed with her face turned away in anger), had her sulkiness (gradually) vanishing, and changed her sides (on the bed) in the course of her feigned sleep.
323. Challenge :
Having forcibly pressed (or twisted) my hand, you have gone away, oh way-farer. If you now can get away from my heart, then I would know (i.e. acknowledge) your power.
324. Eloquent glances :
Oh young boy, what (possibly) did the daughter of the village-chief not convey to you (even) in the presence of the elders, by means of her glances channeled through half-closed (or partially open) eyes, while she turned her face every now and then (in order to steal a look at you)?
325. Eloquent glances :
Oh young boy, what (possibly) did she, looking at you again and again, not convey to you, by means of her glances heavy (dull) with the burden of tears which were welling up from the interior of her eyes ?
326. Nemesis :
The Yaksa image under the banian tree, which used to be formerly placed as a cushion under my head by young men-to that very Yaksa image I am now paying my homage. Oh accursed old age, be contented now (at the revenge you have taken on me).
327. Lost happiness :
The farmer's son is internally (i.e. in his mind) consumed (by grief), in his house, which is devoid of his wife, when he looks at the places where he had carnal enjoyment (with her), as at a place from which a buried treasure has been exhumed (and taken away by some one other than the owner).
328. Sulkiness is simply impossible :
What sort of sulkiness can there be vis-a-vis a person, in whose absence (or separation) sleeplessness (or restless sleep), paleness and protracted sighs fall to one's lot?