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426. “Friend, what shall I say? My heart, forgetting all
formalities, has become one with you. Yet I say to you,
(please look at me once”. 427. And then, with great regard and with words full of affection
and respect, there was nothing that Mahānumati did not:
speak to her (i. e. Madhavilatā). 428. And she replied, “My mistress ! do not say, so. My mind!
itself is very eager to see your lotus-like feet (all the time). Why do you flatter me ? (Or, give me more importance:
than I deserve ?)” 429. When she (i. e. Mahānumati) embraced her closely as she
said this, that Siddha prince thought as if he was embraced
(by her). 430. Then, (somehow) comforted with pleasing words about
going to Alakā, she gave her (i. e. Madhavilatā), O brother, a large and bright necklace (or, a necklace of large and bright pearls). Thus, leaving that Madhavilatā there, she staited towards.
her Vimāna together with all her retinue. 432. Although she was hastened by her friends, her eyes running.
towards him (or fixed on him) would not move (along with her), but were waiting for her heart which would not
return (from the prince). 433-434. As if prevented for a moment by the bees hivering
over her feet, humming around them thinking that they ... were worship-flowers and saying "do not go" (as it were),
when she boarded the Vimāna, I also took leave of that (Mādhavilatā) as also of the Prince after long, and suddenly got into the aerial car. With our eyes fixed in that direction waiting for the heart, we came back to Alakā somehow, with our faces turned back (all the time; or, with our faces looking upwards, acc. to.
com.) 436. In the meanwhile, with all his rays (also tears, with pun)
shed due to fatigue caused by traversing the vast sky, the:
431.
435.
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