Gahakoso Part 2

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

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526. Irresistible temptation :
If you do not want to touch a woman i.e. me) while in the menses, why do you then remain (standing in front, though forbidden? (Look here), we i.e.I) have (now) touched you (already) with our (i.e. my) extended itching hands.
527. Precarious condition :
Her eyes reddish and heavy (i.e. swollen) because of keeping awake (for long at night), and embarrassed because she has put on ornaments in vain, the daughter of the villagechief is on the point of dying. To whom shall we speak (about this) in this place, where there is no physician at all?
528. Emaciation :
Even the extremely harsh mother-in-law was moved to tears by her daughter-in-law, whose husband had gone away (on a long journey), when both her armlets slipped down her hands as she bent down in order to offer homage at her feet.
529. Insuperable barrier :
When the (prospective) traveller saw the face of his wife, drooping and enfeebled, at the time of bidding farewell to her, he, fettered immobilised) by sorrow, was not at all able to depart.
530. Scandal-mongering :
Because of the accursed (mischievous people, who insert a pestle into every needlestich, I have not been able to look at my beloved lover though living in the same village (as I), even with ordinary (normal) eyes (i.e. glances) (much less with amorous glances).
531. Orly death will end my tears :
Dear friend, do not prevent me from weeping at least today for a (single) day. Tomorrow morning, when he will have departed, I shall not weep any more, if I am not (already) dead (by that time).
532. Subtle refusal :
As the dear consort said to his wife in her menses “Now come along", she lowered her face and doubly wrapped up her hips.
533. Deadly shaft :
Oh charming damsel, whom do you not kill with this shaft in the form of your sidelong glance, emanating from the bow of your creeper-like eye-brows and red at its corner, sharp and lethal ?