Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Gaüdavaho
340. “Death has, as it were, engraved lines of the knitting of eye-brows for ( depicting) a laugh on its forehead, teeming with vermin-clusters produced in its joint.”
341. “The dust on the round face, turned in curling knots in the absence of any ointment (olimbha), wears an appearance of thickly besmeared sandal paste (to alleviate ) love's pangs.”
342. “Alas ! The lovely head that (formerly) was fondled and caressed when lying on his beloved's arm, (comely ) like a bamboo sprout, rolls now on the slope of an ant-hill which forms its pillow ! ”
343. “How strange is this glossy transformation of the (lovely) braid of hair into a hollow skull, thickly matted with dry grass, sprouting from its interior filled with mud !”
344. “Alas ! Alas ! This row of teeth, overspread with greenish dirt, gives a trembling, as it were, as if emitting (even now) the juice of many a betel chewed ( before ). ”
345.“ By the presence of bees' feathers (here), it appears that His blossom-darts were discharged by Cupid (even on this dead body ), the feathers having been separated (from the arrows )."
346. “For him, (dead as he is ), the whole world becomes at once enveloped in impenetrable darkness, inspite of its having still the rising sun, the friendly moon, the burning fire and the lustre of jewels.”
347. Thus did the King grieve for long, filled with emotion and (indulging) in various fancies of discriminative thought, greatly softened in his mind at the sight of a human corpse there.
348, (The peacocks ) whose big, sloping plumage with its spreading brilliance, bristles out from within, as if tinged with the lustre of the gems of cobras eaten up (bahutta ) often.
349. The notes of these peacocks delight him (on the banks ) of streams flowing on the slopes, soiled by mountain-smoke, (shaded ) by trees becoming scarce by the (encroaching) fields of Bhils (pulimda).
350. In the forest-tracts, (infested ) by elephants, he sees the tracks of their herds, bristling red with bits of Sallaki plants, as if with filaments, (thrown out) after being eaten up.