Parshvabhyuday

Author(s): Jinsenacharya, M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi

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class of the Kinnara-women, wearing diverse costumes and manifesting various feminine gestures indicative of amorous sentiments, attractive like Rati herself, reduced to the state bringing her into subjection to the strong emotion of love, should be ascertained by Him. He should identify her, a faithful one having her mind restraianed through vows, having no enthusiasm for a person other than Him, attained to the age of maidenhood amongst her female friends, cherishing a strong desire for His arrival, reduced to helplessness through passion, having a curb put upon her speech, brought to her senses by the fans in the form of tender leaves of the fresh plantain-trees brought by her female friends, speaking at random indistinctly, standing on the verge of death, the lonely one, subjected to severe strain owing to the separation caused by being far away by him who was just ike Him, her beloved, owing to their mutual resemblance, like. Ithe lonely female Cakrawaka owing to her beloved being far away On the authority of His brother's utterances she is my second soul, He should not think otherwise of her. On his going there, the young one, looking beautiful owing to her moon-like face reposed in her sprout-like hand, meditating upon Him alone day and night owing to her desire [or attachment to] for Him, might have surely attained to the state in which death alone was left out owing to His separation from her, when those days, become long owing to her being lovesick, would be passing away. Sambara thought that her body, with its upper part bent down a little owing to the burden of her corpulent breasts, having the beauty of her lotus-like face spoiled by the heat of the puffs of breath, emaciated on account of the mental disturbance caused by anxiety, casting dull side-glances, deprived of pleasure, might have become changed in form like a lotus-creeper blighted by frost. Her face, imitating the disc of the moon, with eyes swollen owing to her crying bitterly, with lower and upper lips having their colouer changed owing to the hotness of the muliplicity of