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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
me? I will have nothing to do with jealous anger, which causes grief to you.
304. I carry you in my heart - you and your beloved - you can't be without her.
you ask me why I look so thin and tired. Foolish fellow, you should know that even a mighty bull can't bear too heavy a burden without being thin and tired.
305. Women who can welcome their men home with dances, sighs, tremulous
movements and obvious excitement (lit. who know how to dance, on seeing their lovers (returned from a long journey) with sighs, tremor of the body and horripilation) are fortunate indeed, whereas some women, and I am one of them, on merely seeing our men coming back, forget everything, even ouselves.
306. For translation vide DR-Avaloka S.No. (16.31) supra.
307. It is with great difficulty that one gets a dear lover. When one gets him,
it is difficult to have a real hold over him; and even if you do get such a one and he is not quite what your heart has desired, he is as good as not
got. 308. For translation vide DHV S.No. (40.14) supra.
(Verse 309 is treated in the Notes.)
310. Shocking that you should be planning another journey so quickly — may
be you are fond of hard life. But the curls in my hair which I dressed up only on your return haven't yet become straight !
311. My dear daughter, you need not shed such tears because of old age of your
husband. Your marriage takes you to a beautiful village which is surrounded by woods with dilapidated temples in them and aren't there plenty of young men there?
312. She has indulged in her jealousy and anger so much that her young man
is now to her as good as gone abroad though he is very much in the same village.
313. In the presence of the elders she put on a very brave face at the time of
your departure, but when she, later, closed her eyes tears that were sticking
