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pervading all objects, your semblance, helping to prescribe fruitless meditation with reference to sages, is not found decidedly in a single object even. Ah ! fie upon the stupidity of the sage ! for this sage, not knowing you as one of bad conduct, has become constantly attached to you and does not show favour to us, and having painted you on a slab of stone in the form of the modification of his mind by means of feelings of love resembling the mineral dyes, like a beloved enraged while dallying, remembers you. Oh sage ! be pleased, have compassion upon me ( or us ], cast a momentary glance at me [ or us l. Mostly, a sage is the very milk of compassion [ or Mostly, a sage has the activities of his mind rendered tender through compassion ). Give up your meditation a little until I desire to make myself prostrate at your feet along with sweet words meant to request you for enjoy.nent. To speak out the mind, oh lord ! my eyesight is obscured by luke-warm tears gathering up incessantly when I, with delight and great attachment, look at your picture sketched in my mind, attracting minds of lascivious women, on painting it with a desire to look at to mitigate the misery caused by the feelings of love.. When the god of love, reduced to a poignant state, pains my body by means of floral arrows and torments it constantly very much in the bed, made of a variety of flowers,1, whom separation causes sharp pain, could not keep company with you in a dream even. Cruel Fate does not allow our association even in a dream. My female friends, confounded
much, mutually laughing gently with compassion on seeing me wishing to get up with my arms stretched in the sky for the purpose of embracing you very closely, by reason of knowledge, acquired in a dream, of your approach, have recourse to me when my dream ceases to remind me of the activities that took place in my dream. Owing to the possibility of my being robbed of the embrace, carried into effect by you, having feelings of love risen in your heart and secured by me with a great difficulty in
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