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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(xxvii) love's enjoyment of the King with his beloveds. The incident of the Madanadahana or the burning of the Lovegod by God Siva is described in 4 Găthās ( 738-741 ).... "But although reduced to a body-less condition as a result of his being burnt by Siva, he still depends for the victory of his arrows on these women" (742). “The gallant King, with his broad neck caressingly pressed by the encircling arms of his beloveds, puts on an assortment of a summer dress" (744). “He is looked for by the ladies with longing eyes, which rush up towards him with streaming tears of joy, (the eyes) extending their delicate arms, as it were, to hold him in an embrace" ( 749 ). “ Dressed in an attractive, green apparel, put on for the special occasion of a love-tryst, they exhibit by their straight (tapering) thighs, the inside stems of plantain trees with their equipment (of fluttering, green leaves )" (755). “They look beautiful with a pair of their rounded breasts, swelling at the prospect of getting from their lover a close embrace, which look very much like a pair of wheels of the Cupid's chariot heading towards their lover” (759). “With the rays of their teeth, tinged slightly red by the rosy lustre of their lower lip, it appears as if they have white bandages, soaked in blood, tied over the wounds on their bosom inflicted by Cupid" (762). “They bathe and wash clean, as it were, even the image of their sinful lover ( reflected) in their broad cheeks, (thinking it be) polluted by his close contact with another woman " (764). “ With their bosom filled with a thick accumulation of pollen (fallen) from flowers on their ears tossed in anger, they appear to be sprinkling (healing) powder, as it were, over wounds (inflicted) by Cupid, but now in the process of getting cured" (766). “Their eyes, with eye-lashes throbbing in the tremulous grace of love's dalliance, appear to be