Gahakoso Part 2

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

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378. Diplomacy :
Oh (female) messenger, you alone are clever in your business). You alone know how (and when) to speak harsh and gentle words (as demanded by the occasion). You should (therefore) deal with him in such a way that the scratched skin does not become white (i.e. you should scold him for his indifference or infidelity towards me, but take care that he does not become alienated from me).
379, Growing emaciation :
Oh charming one, unable to get a place in your heart, (already) crowded with a thousand (other) women, she for the whole day occupies herself with nothing else (but doting on you), and emaciates (still more) her already emaciated body.
380. Continuous agony :
Even for a moment, that beautiful young damsel does not slip down from my heart, having planted severe agony into it (by her separation from me), like the (harrowing) apprehension (or sense of guiltiness) caused by a crime secretly committed.
381. Good-bye to my sulkiness :
Rise up; I am not at all angry (with you). Embrace (me). Why are you in vain appeasing me? I shall have nothing to do with sulkiness ( jealous anger), which causes grief (or embarrassment) to you.
382. Spot-tarnished moon :
When the housewife touched her face with her hand soiled with kitchen-soot (i.e. with soot transferred to it while she was doing the work of cooking in the kitchen), her face began to look like the (spotted) moon, and then her spouse could not help smiling (as he was amused at the soiling of her naturally spotless bright face).
383. Sure evidence :
Affected (scorched) by protracted, warm and copious (massive and frequent) sighs and (then) sprinkled with the water of her tears, her lower lip, darkened (by the scorching effect of the sighs) and with pale white spots (here and there due to the cooling effect of the tears), proclaims that she is separated from you.
384. Nostalgia :
At the commencement of the rainy season, it seems to the wayfarer whose mind is turned homewards, that his (homeward) way is as if shortened, as if cut up into pieces and as if drunk up by him.
385. Lingering memories :
This (or that) young woman sleeps (soundly) with her fatigued limbs, plunged in abounding happiness due to the lingering memories of the enjoyment of sexual dalliance (overnight), thereby giving (i.e. causing) mental agony to her rivals in love.