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of enjoying the pleasure of union with her even in a picture. The sylvan dieties are moved to tears owing to the sympathy they felt for him, but he, the unfortunate one, does not find any means of removing his grief. No other alternative being left he makes up his mind to bear up patiently and expects his beloved to follow in his footsteps. Lastly, the Yaksa is described as referring to an incident that took place in strict privacy.
The poet ends with an expression of a wish- "May you not be separated even for a moment from your beloved ! The reader says · Amen' and feels sorry for not having the poem longer than what it is.
This Meghadūta is incorporated with the Pārśvābhyudaya by Acārya Jinasena. By writing this work, the author has proved his vivid imagination to be superior to that of Kālidāsa. On going through the present work, all the impartial scholars will be convinced of the superiority of the Pārśvābhyudaya to: Kālidāsa's work. The scope for the author's Imagination being limited very much, the author seems to have been forced to have recourse to grammar to express his ideas precisely in short and to Sanskrt lexicons to find out different meanings of the expressions of Kālidāsa with a view to bring the expressions into harmony with the changed context.
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