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.17 Even Indra's wife, with lovely eyes, hatkers after your physical beauty which is incomparable (lit-illusti ious) in all the three worlds. Depositing this (unsurpassed) beauty with that trader, whe is the prince among misers (lit the jewel among misers) why do you, o fawn-eyed one, cause dejection or sorrow in the miods of the shrewd ones (or the sharp-witted or the clever ) ?
P 50. ri gara BH 4: 7 ga: 97: To every person his own self is dear and not another's self. Cf the Subhāşita : #19: $64 964: 1
V.18 o lotus-eyed one, reply to me, be pleased. Please tell me, o beautiful one, why this scandal in regard to showing a favjur to suitors ? O you with handsome teeth, when you will start speaking (with us), life, the prime of youth, gracefulness of gait (lalita n), wealth or charm (cârimā)--these things will give us delight.
V.19 For us who are intent on propitiation there is humiliation only. The dead do not indeed come back to life by the flattery of their kinsmen.
V.20 What pain or shame can this tying of my arms by rope cause to me who am already bound by the bond (or tie ) of Mallikā's love (for me ) ? V.21 We agree that the ocean is able to put the jewels at its bottom and settle grass on its surface. But it is certainly helpless in hiding their innate qualities of jewelness' and 'grassness'.
cf with this verse Bhartshari's Nitišatakam (v 14) for a similar thought : अम्भोजिनीवनविहारविलासमेव हंसस्य हन्ति नितरां कुपितो विधाता ।
न त्वस्य दुग्धजलभेदविधौ प्रसिद्धां वैदग्ध्यकीर्तिमपहर्तु मसौ समर्थः ॥ hqa à qfa: (0 Kapiñjala, ) this your master STEFHET: ( = my in v. 21 ) able aurat ( = acl*: in v. 21 ) helpless. V.22 (Citrangada addresses Makaranda-o vile man, )
you do not have an iota of the trader's art for you, through infatuation are about to give up your own life acquired through good fortune in return for another's betrothed virgin who belongs to an altogether different
pecies and who is not offered to you by her parents (lit father ). Hart 2....caq." O you wretched aerial spirit (= Vidyadhara ; et
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