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Widowed Wives of Enemies
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182. “Why has your hair-braid, graces of which were inseparably associated with the inter-weaving of a floral wreath variegated with jewels, now turned reddish-brown like a bamboostick struck by smoke?”
183. “Why has your face, its cheeks fonce ) looking like the counter-part of the digit-full moon, become darkish and smoky grey, like a Damanaka tuft of blossoms ?”
184. “The lip you have, which (once ) was so sweet and stuffed with beauty, is now turned unevenly reddish and rough like a fresh Kandala shoot, enveloped by particles of dust beaten down by a shower.”
185.“ This your expansive ear, we see now becoming tremulous like an erect Lavali leaf at the mercy of winds, unadorned as it is, by auspicious ear-ornaments.
186. “The self-same broad surface of your breasts, garbed like an eternal (full) moon or a jewelled jar, has dropped away its encircling garland and finds now no occasion (and scope for an application) of the sandal-paste.”
187. “The lovely complexion over your limbs, bright-yellow like a bunch of Kadamba filaments freshly bursting in a blossom, wears now the lustre of gold, dulled by a long lapse of time since its production.”
188. “The same pair of thighs which before had a white shining look, rendering its comparisons with the tusks of young elephants absolutely inadequate, has now, we observe, become loose and insipid like crushed lotus-stalks.
. 189. “Alas ! young woman, why do you have such red, colourless feet, like old (aņava) and broken bits of a Karcūra plant, looking like dull-lustred lotuses thwarted in the process of their full blossoming ?”
190. “This retinue now moves about, with the dignified grace of their dress losing all its brightness, having been worn a long time, and thus looking dusty like old paintings.”
191. In this way were the beautiful ladies of his enemies made to weep ( rujjamti) by their friends who, not having known of the
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