Gahakoso Part 2

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

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550. Love is irresistible and full of contradictions :
Why do you weep and why do you become emaciated ? Oh fair one, why do you get angry with all and sundry ? Love is full of strange contradictions. Tell me, who can stop it (i.e. cure its nature)?
551. Ancient legend :
Those young men, that rural grandeur (or splendour), that youthful age of ours (i.e. of mine)-people talk of them all like an anecdote (belonging to the remote past), and we too (i.e. I too) listen (approvingly) to what they say.
552. Too late now to get angry with him:
While her cheeks were drenched with tears and her lower lip was throbbing, she said smiling with embarrassment “Why should I get angry (with my consort) even now when (his, love (for me) has already attained to the state of an oath (i.e. when his love for me is no longer a reality and is no longer directly experienced by me, but has got to be asserted by him on oath)?"
553. Contrast :
He who (formerly) used to kiss me eagerly even when my face was anointed with yellow-coloured ghee (and when I was unapprogchable, being in my menses), he is now tardy in touching me even when I am adorned with ornaments (i.e. out of the menses).
554. Do not go by external appearances :
Oh mother, do not reject her simply because her body is covered with a thick (roughtextured) garment. Even the pair of garments used (normally) for covering the body, is of course removed at the time of amorous enjoyment.
555. Self-defeating sulkiness :
It is quite true that after every quarrel the delights of carnal enjoyment are ever new (i.e. are indulged in afresh). But oh sulking damsel, (prolonged and frequent) sulkiness destroys even intense love.
556. Belated regret :
Intoxicated with haughtiness (or pride), I picked up a quarrel (with my beloved) without any (apparent)reason, and by abstaining from meeting him (.e. by avoiding him) I destroyed our mutual love by my defiant and arrogant attitude (or speech).
557. Beau ideal :
Let people learn from you how to speak pleasing things, and also show to give (i.e. make a show of) excessive love even to persons whom they hate and how to appease those who are angry.