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V. 675.-"The essence of life is youth, and the essence of seasons is that one whose friend is the flower-arrowed (i. e. Spring), and O fair lady! the essence of living is the tasting of the nectar of love sports."
V. 680.-"That moment of time is the essence of a hundred years, in which the expectant fair lady is seen tremblingly coming to the first rendezvous."
V. 714.-"Let the bee, wandering in many gardens, suck at pleasure the juice from (other) flowers, (but as) it has experienced the special flavour, it will come back to the Malati flower."
V. 716.-"Intense love becomes more intense by its having the slight bitterness of a small quarrel just like fire on the shaking of the logs."
V. 719.-"That meritorious deed, whose fruit is the embrace of the lover who has come unexpectedly, is very difficult to know even for great Munis like Manu and others, who know all (the events of) the three times."
V. 724.-"The fruit of childhood is wilfulness, that of youth is the enjoyment of pleasant love sports, that of old age is the pacification (of the senses), and the fruit of the whole life is-achieving the welfare of others."
Vs. 791-792.-"What avails it to a ploygamous man, to become eager for love sports, when, though surrounded by ladies, one is angry on being Khandita, one is dull being slighted in love, one is disgusted by not getting a place near her lover, another one has quarreled, and another one being newly married is overwhelmed with shame."
Vs. 899-900.-"The thrown-up necklace, strikes in anger the lovely bodice now at the (joyous) time of the dance with lively steps, addressing (the bodice),-'I, though tormented, stayed on, on the region of the breasts at the time of union when there was the pain from hard pressing by hands, whilst you were pulled off and cast aside somewhere; but now you come between me (and the breasts)."
I think these specimens are sufficient to convince the reader of the poet's genius. Many of the pieces are of exquisite beauty, an idea of which cannot be adequately given in a translation. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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