Lilavaikaha

Author(s): K R Chandra, Ramniklal M Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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S. T. Nimkar
27. Cool with the contact of ripples on cold water and blended
with the fragrance of sweet half-open Mālati buds, the breeze
is blowing gently. 28. And this grove on the bank of the lake with its trees swing
ing in gentle waves appears beautiful like the decorative paintings on the faces of young women that are in the form
of) ten quarters. 29. Look ! these Cakravāka ( couples) with their hearts set on
greeting the day, are uniting (with each other) in the pleasure
ponds being free from the pangs of separation. 30. See, this swarm of bees tempted by the smell of blossoming
Sapta parna (tree) and thus turned away from enjoying (the
fragrance of) other flowers, is moving about. 31. The moon is as if kişsing the night (all over) her face, which
has ear-ornaments of night-lotuses, wihch has a fragrance of sweet smelling blue lotuses blooming open and which has clear bright eyes in the form of stars. So what else can be
said ? 32. The night is beautiful, the autumn is clear, you are near (me).
and so, for me, with all the) attendants favourable, there
is nothing that is not there. 33. So (please) tell me some new interesting story, pleasing as
an evening-pastime, attractive in speech (i.e. dialogues
or language) and appealing to women's mind." 34. Hearing the words of that (girl) with beautiful lotus-like face,
I said, “You of sweet eyes lika blue-totus petals, the poets
here have said (or laid down) that Kathā is of three types, 35. Namely, divine, divine-human and human; there also the
early poets have given some of its characteristics. 36. Moreover, various excellent stories composed by great poets
in beautiful words (lit. letters) and of Sanskrit, Prakrit and
mixed type are also heard of. 37. Among these, the stories which are told by dullards like us,
O sweet one ! (lit. having eyes like those of a deer) do not shine (or become famous) in this world.