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
1160. This young lady, (grown) languid in (the movement of) her waist, is troubled by her rounded breasts, become doubly heavy by the pulverised dust of her lover's (finger-) nail-tips, oftentimes broken, (as they ground gratingly against the hard surface of her breasts).
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1161. The bevy of beloveds here looks pretty, lying asleep (numanna) obliquely (at an angle), with a hand thrown over hip (brought together) near the breast, as the belly is bent (and pressed) inside because of its thinness, thighs having been crossed (one over the other).
1162. Here a man kisses the mouth of his beloved, covered with drops of perspiration, arising through sleep and exhaustion and swayed away (amdolia ) ( to dodge the kiss) in her awakening, which (disturbance) in her happiness (of sleep) is not tolerated by her.
1163. The young girls, with their limbs left loose and listless (nīsaha), (accompanied) with heavy breathing, started because of the state of fatigue, appear, in their sleep, to be giving a slight indication of their enfeebled condition, as it were.
1164. And then here drops down a multitude (uppila) of tiny shooting-stars ( tūrālava) from the sky, a cluster of flowers, as it were, showered by gods in our direction (samuha) on this important occasion of the narration of our King's exploits.
1165. The moon's orb has developed rays, pink like fading lotus-fibres, with a tawny-coloured (pisanga) halo like pieces of ripe (abāla) Jambu fruit cut open.
1166. The meteors fall down (from the sky) like drops of water from the young Lady-Night, when her abundant mass of hair, in the form of darkness, drenched with dew (sinha), is brushed back (osāria) by her.
1167. The sky, kissed by the moon's orb with its discoloured (black) deer (spot), staying suspended (lhasia) in its central region, looks like the (leather) top-covering (puda) of a tambour (daddura), with its slightly-split, puffy (viaḍa) circular coat (of black, inky stuff).
1168. All the tiny (talina) stars having now set, the very same circle of planets, which formerly (looked) rarefied
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