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glorious achievements, he feels greatly discouraged and inert in himself ( fa).
The night has fallen and the Poet takes this opportunity to describe the amorous activities of the young people in Gāthās, 1122-1138 and in Gāthâs 1139-1141.
1123. The face of a certain lady, having undergone fresh cure and make-up of the eye-brows and the forehead, has developed a round fullness of expression (fig). This has opened out the eyes which look bigger than before (31fe3faa). The face thus shines specially bright and lustrous (विसेसतार).
1124. The ladies, just fresh from bath, are very attractive (streerita). They have removed (aftar) the ornaments they had before their bath and have not done any decorations (37973T0FHEUTT) after their bath. Thus they look lovely like mangocreepers (HE3Tat) who are devoid (quut) of blossoms which they have shed and have yet to put out the tiny mango-fruit. A stage between the blossoms and the fruit (कुसुमफलंतर).
1126. The gushing flow (cat) of the incense-smoke of black sandal-wood (TOTTE) is grasped and clasped to her bosom by a certain lady, appearing as if she embraces this cloak of darkness (31TfT3ra) with joy, in order that it may serve as a black cloak, when she goes out to meet her lover (TAOFEHT) in the dead of night.
1129. The gauze or a thin transparent fabric which the lady wears over her head is reflected on her clear crystal-like bosom. It is an armour, as it were, which is put on by her to shield her heart against the Love's arrows apprehended by her.
1131. The lady wears a garland-like (trauit) golden girdle (HHEMT), big and shining (3773), which has now slipped (ITF333T) over her hips. It looks as if it is an encircling fire-wall (ffeqTTT) constructed (ffett) round her waist for fear of the Love-god (TFHE).
1132. The lover, pining for his beloved, finds the moonlight unbearable. Bāna tells us how his hero Pundarika, in his lovesick condition, died of a moon-stroke ! The Poet imagines that the rays of the moon become hot (TTT), perhaps because during
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