Lilavaikaha

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

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Lilavai-Kahå of Koühala
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566. .So I am anxious in my h:art; còme, let us go to Malaya
"mountain; friend, I will by myself offer myself (or, my
body) to him. 567. My heart, burning with the fire of passion cannot brook
any delay and his life also is in danger, as you have also
heard". 568. Then I said, “Dear friend, I have heard and seen and have
experienced myself the evil ways of the wicked Cupid, why
do you iell me ? (or, what can you tell me ?) 569. Impelled by some karmas done in the past, a person, long
ing for happiness, helplessly falls in love with someone
difficult to get (in marriage). 570. (So) let the Cupid, fond of seeing others' distress, be burnt
down by that same agony which strikes the lovers, grieved by the unattainable nature of (their) union (with their
beloved ones). 571. Those who have not known love, do not know distress and
(thus) are foremost among the happy; and those who are separated from their beloveds, you should know, are the
. foremost among the miserable ones. 572. Blessed are those who do not know the course of love,
which comes into being with difficulty, which dissociates (people from each other) in a moment, which is painful as it ends in separation and which is very difficult to cope
with (throughout). 573. Still, do not be distressed; do not pine away and do not
give up hope. Happiness or misery comes to whomsoever it
is destined (to come); who gives or who can take it away ? 574. Such a thing should be done in such a way that virtue is
kept, relatives and other people are pleased and parents
(or elders) praise (us, doing it). 575. Those well thought-out undertakings which may be insipid
in the beginning, (but) which turn out to be like nectar in the end (or, in effect) are not ridiculed by people.