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single braid of her hair which was to be untied by Him, with His misery alleviated, after having effected a union of them two, the separations incarnate [ or embodied in flesh ] at the end of the period of the outlawry, which hair had to be remembered by him to have been tied into a single braid without a garland on the first day of the separation in the birth remotest from the then one, by her hand with its nails unpared pushing aside repeatedly from the region of the cheek that single braid of hair, resembling the resorted bodily form of Rāhu finding pleasure in eclipsing the moon in the form of her face, possessing darkness like that of the sky, resembling a line of smoke of fire in the form of the god of love, dishevelled owing to its being touched, rough and irregular, excited for pained] at heart on withdrawing the couple of her eyes turned in the direction of the rays of the moon, cool® like nectar, entered through the windows in search as if of the beloved relatives approached there, in order to receive them [i.e. the rays ] out of previous liking for them and turned back straightway, owing to the eye-lashes being heavy with the drops of tears shutting her eyes troubled over and again by fatigue caused by going and coming frequently when the moon would be penetrating her rays through the windows. That frail woman, rejecting food, possessing an emaciated body, with ornaments discarded, placed repeatedly on the region of the bed with great distress, with pale cheeks moistened with tears dropping down from her eyes, would be able to occasion Him, with His mind's equilibrium disturbed, to attain to that state. She, extremely happy, wallowing like a fish near her bed, reduced to the state of helplessness owing to her tremulous sighs, with passion excited, would surely make Him shed tears in the form of fresh water, for every one, compassionate by nature, is generally stirred to tears. sambara said that he thought that the mind of His female friend would be saturated with affection for himself, an elderly one, in company with his beloved, having regarded affection as that for
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