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
734. The mass of creeper-like ( curly) locks of hair, tossed up and dishevelled ( visamthula), looks lovely, the nostrils heaving up ( tulia) with forceful (uvvana ), extended breaths ( vittharamta) by the oppression of the throat (caused by the bodice being removed over the neck).
735. The pair of (delicate) creeper-like arms, with their wrists strenuously exerting to remove, painfully, over the foremost parts of the hands, jewelled bracelets, looks picturesque, as it presses against, ( to cover up ) through shyness, the heavy (exposed) breasts.
736. “The bodice being thus taken off ( uttaria) with very interesting incidents ( vasara) (in the act of its removal ), the bevy of your beloveds gets on to your bed, dressed in thin, flimsy (ladaha) apparel.”
737. With his victory thus hailed with joy by the bards and his army-arrays (senāviņņāsa) having marched over Gādhipura (Kānya-kubja ), the King halted all other activities (to concentrate ) only on the delicate ( ladaha) pleasures of love's dalliance. Cupid, the Love-God, being bnrnt by Siva
738. (God Śiva ) - His face, just when closed ( absorbed ) in meditation, begins (to change over to ) a reddish (flushed ) glow because of indignation, when He discerned the cause of His mental affectation, the lower lip throbbing at this time.
739. The eyes open their corners (avamga), becoming dreadfully red through anger little by little, and their lustre deeply intensified by the jewels of the Lord of cobras (Vāsuki ), coiled up over His brawny (fleshy) ears.
740. The broad expanse (pariņāha ) of the chest darkens, its bright loveliness ( caused ) by ashes fading, when assailed (ahiutta ) by particles of perspiration, the portion round the throat, lustrous (blue), being thereby indiscernible.
741. The eye on the forehead, with the greatest of difficulty, opens out, the eye-lids being pushed out by the mass of (inner) fire-flames, although it (eye ) was being pressed down by the knitting action of thick eye-brows (frowns ).
742. (These women) on whom rests ( lit. sits ) the flowerbowed God ( Cupid ) even to-day for his victory, with his arrows