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your siesta on this hot afternoon (lit. in the afternoon of the hot season or the summer) and which indeed show a sparkle of desire in the corners. (Verse 358 is treated in the Notes.)
359. Even to this day, the poor girl preserves (bite-mark) on her cheek the
bite-mark and the encirding hedge of goose-flesh as a precious possession.
360. The young damsel who was frightened (pleasantly surprised?) by a hit with
a creeper in Navalată game made a provocative amorous gesture in such a beautiful mannner that even today young women from house to house would love to learn it.
361. She has sprinkled the road with glances from her lotus-like eyes for your
approach and is now standing in the doorway, her breasts looking like two jars of water, the auspicious symbols of welcome.
362. Dear girl, when you are standing in the doorway waiting for some one with
your face raised a little and breasts standing up firmly, it looks like a sacramental lotus on an auspicious jar of water.
363. You will certainly go to him, O fair one. But do not be in a hurry. Let the
moon grow a little brighter then no one can distinguish your face from the
moonlight like milk poured into milk? 364. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (24.47) supra. 365. In the backyard of the house, young men put up swings well suited to the
shape and size of the young daughter of the village-chief.
366. The winsome young bride smiles sweetly with her lips closed and cheeks
quivering when she notices her brother-in-law desiring her for one more game of love.
(Verse 367 is treated in the Notes.)
368. Dear boy, as she looked again and again at you with her eyes dimmed by
tears what did she not communicate?
369. The girl hallucinated herself that you were standing in front of the swing
