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of Cupid with a bee suggests that as the bee repeatedly flutters round the lotus and sucks its juice often, so does Cupid kiss the lips of his wife Rati, repeatedly, which heightens the pleasure. Here I would invite the reader's attention to the beautiful picture of a Venus given just at the beginning.
Vs. 27-30.-Here is a humourous description of Vikarâlâ."Mâlati saw Vikarâlâ seated in a cane-chair. She had a few projecting teeth. Her chin was depressed. She had a big flat nose. The skin hung loose on her body where the fleshless breasts could be marked by long and thick teats. Her eyes were red and sunken. The lobes of her ears were long and without ornaments. She had a few gray hairs. The veins of her body were visible. Her neck was long and slender and she had clothed herself in two white garments. Her necklace consisted of roots of various medicinal plants and stones used as charms. She had a tiny ring of gold wires on her finger. She was surrounded by a retinue of concubines, and she had her eyes fixed on the presents brought to her by paramours.”
Vs. 44-45. “O fair lady! This your braid of hair makes your lovers your servants and resembles the volume of smoke coming out from the burning of Cupid (by Shiva). O thinbellied one! This your slowly rising eyebrow, the home of love sports, having pretty glances, accompanied by sweet smile, conquers even calm people..." The whole description of Malati's beauty is in this fashion.
V. 97. This verse is quoted in Kavyaprakasha. “O lover of beautiful women ! The heart of Malati was first taken hold of by Cupid, and then by you on coming under her vision."
V. 103.- A very sweet sounding and pathetic verse. "The girl speaks thus day and night-'O friend ! remove camphor (paste), do take away the garland, what's the use of lotuses,enough-with them'".
V. 116.-"Even Cupid all at once becomes the mark of his own arrows on seeing the thighs, like plaintain trees, of her whose body is like that of Rambha.” Verses following this are in the same strain.
Vs. 131-132.-An indifferent lover is to be scolded thus by a mai...-"I am thin (through grief) because, she is enamoured
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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