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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Gaïdavaho
1144. This lady, stiff ( even) with a remnant of pride, drinks after a long time from the wine-glass, its mouth covered with a lotus heaving up (samūsasamta), having been made weightless (lahuia) on account of its pollen puffed away by her (heavy) sighs.
1145. This lady drinks, ( sucking) through the (hollow) lotus-stalk (māla), as if through her heart, which came out impetuously through intense longing and the body of which is holed (jajjara ) by the (piercing ) shafts of Cupid,
1146. Pride, although sustained for a long time, wears away, while that (pride ) is formed up (samghadai) again, even though it is a long time that it was shed off. Thus does intoxication of wine play with women in love, (rousing) contradictory (moods and ) emotions.
1147. Young women show no faltering (akhalia) in their bodily movement or speech and are firm and composed (dhira). as the intoxication naturally wears off from the heart. But the fact that they are inebriated (matta.) is betrayed by the flush on their cheeks.
1148. The playful action of the intoxication of wine brings heaviness to the bodily parts, although slim and light. It causes levity (lahuei ), however, in the hearts of the beloved ones, although (stiff and ) heavy with haughtiness.
1149. In a meeting with lovers, charming are the sighs of lovely ladies, exhaled through the mouth and falling out from an inert (languishing) heart; (they are ) veritable graces, indeed, that just have survived those that had already left during (agonising) separation.
1150. The plump, rounded breasts of young ladies look pretty with the rows (rāi) of fresh nail-marks on them, appearing as if (they are so many points ) where the hearts had burst, because of the force (exerted ) by exhalations of ( wild ) joy at their union with their lovers.
1151. The embrace of the ladies, with breasts rough-skinned because of the scars of) nail-lines, even though tight and hard (asoumalla ), gives peculiar pleasure, as it does honour and justice to the intensity (kāma-bhara) of love's passion.