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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
to the lashes rolled down.
314. When you see your lover, you are thrilled,when he comes near you tremble,
and when he begins to talk with you, you get drenched with perspiration, when it comes to physical touch you blush.
315. To anoint her lover with sandal powder she in great excitement and all smiles
took a handful of the powder on her trembling palm and look ! it became scented paste!
316. Look ! all the make-up on the bride's face and her other decorations were
spoilt by the profuse perspiration into which she broke and the goose-flesh she had all over as she caught the name of the bridegroom in the wedding
songs which women sang. 317. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (218.87) supra.
318. She did not say a word but her tear - drenched face and her eyes turned
away from all other men did confirm clearly what a handsome man he was.
319. The first ever, non-sensical, incoherent and broken replies the new bride
mumbled indistinctly to the bride-groom's repeated questions find not room enough in his heart.
320. O left eye, if my dear man comes back home today as your twitchings predict,
I shall reward you by keeping the other eye shut and allowing you alone your fill of a look at him.
321. You are a fool, young lady, by easily giving in on just seeing him, you don't
know what a lot of fun and pleasure you have missed. You should have made him fall at your feet and allowed him impetuous and forced kissings!
322. On hearing that the bride-groom, chosen for her, is none other than the one
on whom she had fixed her heart the young girl felt so greatly thrilled that the signs of excitement showed all over her body (lit. the young girl was thick with goose-flesh all over her body). She first bathed herself with perspiration then her friends bathed her with water.
323. Let me ask you, friend, tell me honestly : Do the armlets of all women grow
bigger on their arms, when the beloved is away on a journey?
