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P. 413. Å. 7. S.. 28
Thus the clever woman gratified her own anger towards her lover, all the time observing all the formalities. . Verse 703: the lover says “ Better to be openly repremanded with than to be tortured by this concealed anger of yours etc.
Verse 704: aggrega loosening. . भ्रूभेदो न कृतः no sign of disapproval was shown by frowning.
Her prompt yielding to the advances of lover betrayed her anger.
Verse 705: 9141 gafas obstinately refusing etc. It was really a novel way of showing anger!
The anti - climax of love between the lovers is beautifully shown in the following verse. The woman says: “ first of all, we were one, as it were, in body and soul; then we were darlings of each other; now we are only husband and wife. I am suffering the penalty of long life; it would have been better, if I would have died earlier."
sfaserafoa hard as adamant.
Sometimes the stai stat actually beats her offending lover, as is illustrated in the verse 707. See 29739 II for this and the following verse.
efargistu gait: even a ' keep' is called araft. Verse 708:
A. wanton woman says this to her neighbour. She is going to meet her lover secretly, but makes a pretext of going to fetch water from a stream outside the village. Thorny shrubs covering the stream will scratch her body, as she says, but this is merely her pretext to deceive people in case her paramour in his love - sports would handle her roughly.
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