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For the purpose of consoling her by my messages of such kind, conformable to truth, revealing your sublimity, you, standing by the window of the house, should, at mid-night, direct your eyes towards her, a chaste woman, neither awake nor asleep like a lotus-creeper [ neither blossomed nor having its petals closed ] on a cloudy day, having her limbs lying disorderly, unbappy [ even ] in the flowery bed, afflicted excessively by mental worries, lying on ground-floor, resembling one drawn in a picture, love-begotten passion embodied in human form, emaciated owing to mental distress, resting on one side [ of her body ) on her bed of separation, resembling the form of the moon having only one digit remaining on the Eastern horizon, wearing a beatiful garland placed on the bosom to alleviate misery, passing that very night long owing to the separation from you, with hot tears, dropping down, restraining the eyelashes, gathering again and again, causing sleeplessness [ not allowing to go to sleep ), which [ night ] was passed by my beloved in the presence of your beloved like a moment along with me in enjoyments at will causing delight, throwing aside verily again and again ber tress, dangling about her cheeks, coarse owing to her taking simple baths, the spot as if of the moon in the form of her face bearing a form like that of a deer separated [from the moon in the form of her face ], exhaling lukewarm sighs, afflicting [ her ] sprout-like lower lip, indicative of her internal pangs, desirous of getting sleep the scop for which would be stemmed by a gushing flow of water [i. e. tears ] from her eyes on account of her thinking. How could a union with me, though effected in a dream, of my beloved, having his love-sickness intensified, with his misery become violent on account of his being separated from me, residing in a remote country, be effected ( actually ) of its own accord ?, abusing that [single ] braid of her hair which has to be untied by you, with your misery alleviated, after effecting a union of you two, the separations incarnate ( or embodied in flesh ] at the end of the period of the outlawry, wbich hair is being remembered by me to have been tied into a single braid without a garland on the first day of the separation in the birth remotest from the present one, by her hand with its nails unpared pushing aside repeatedly from the region of the cheek that single braid of hair, resembling the rosorted bodily form of Rāhu finding pleasure in eclipsing the moon in th- form of her face, possessing darkness [ or colour ] like that of the sky, resembling a lipe of smoke of fire in the form of the god of love, dishevelled owing to its being
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