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
342. Here lies the head of the man, which once was lovely like a lotus and was caressed by his beloved, when reposed on her arm looking soft and delicate like a bamboo shoot. It is now resting on the slope ( T) of an ant-hill, turned into a cushion ( BOETUI 7637 ).
343. And now the woman's head which at one time was adorned with braids of hair. The same has undergone a hideous change (qu ), in that it is reduced to a mere skull with bunches of dry grass, sprouting in the layer of mud with which it is filled.
344. The two rows of teeth are now pasted with green dirt. The Poet imagines that this green stuff is, perhaps, the juice of many a betel chewed (fafurre) by the lady during her life-time and now being thrown out (azat) by her.
345. The bluish feathers of bees are still found to be sticking to the skeleton. The Poet imagines that the god of love has perhaps discharged his arrows of blossoms (HTETATOTT) even at this dead body and in the process, the feathers, forming a part of the arrows, are removed from the arrows and are now sticking to the dead body.
346. The whole world is plunged in eternal darkness for the dead man, even though there still are, over his dead body, blazing lights and lustres in the form of the sun, the moon, the fire and shining gems.
348. Brailfe fürfe - 3Trata fuffrat - Spread out inside, bristle out from within. f978996HTCT - f979 TT TTT: - The sloping plumage. The cobras, often eaten by the peacocks, have, as it were, lent the lustre of their crest-gems to their feathers.
350. The leaves of Sallaki plant are the favourite food of elephants. The paths by which they went in the forest are marked by the bits of Sallaki leaves dropped down on the way after being gobbled up (3957). They look reddish, as if strewn with filaments ( auferans ).
353. The Sabara women had peacock feathers placed on their ears as decoration. When they looked full at the King, it appeared as if they cast arrows, equipped with feathers (7737T FUTT), in the form of the glances from their eyes.