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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
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face which has been chaffed by the winter winds and come up with your choli cast off, your admirers keep staring at you exactly as male serpents stare at a female serpent as she comes out of the hole, with her slough cast
off.
394. In the Navalatā game he (the village-chief's son?) struck her on her expansive
breasts with a palāśa creeper; surrounded by young village girls she wanders even to this date in the streets of her village).
395. O, stop clowning, 'brother-in-law'! She is perspiring so much, she is without
any sunshade. But she perspires as much even when it is winter. You needn't move away. Do create some shade for her.
396. You young fool, why should you go on asking this young girl whom she has
chosen as her lover? you should have seen the perspiration on her hand as she stretched it for you to hit it with the navalatā (fresh creeper).
397. You lucky man indeed, look at the way she is secretly gazing at you with
eyes almost popping out of the veil on her face and remains herself screened by her friends.
398. My dear boy, what did the daughter of the village-chief not communicate
to you (even) in the presence of the elders, by the glances she shot at you as she again and again turned her face?
399. Why should you still be trying to wash the mud stain out which has been
put there like decoration by, you know who, and which is perfectly proper during Holi; besides the profuse perspiration from your bosom has already washed it off.
400. The young woman's blue 'choli' is fastened in such a way that a couple of
inches of cleavage is left uncovered thereby providing the youngsters an opportunity to have a look at the small sample of the concealed loveliness.
401. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (123.66) supra.
402. Oh, how I wish it never ends - you over there blowing on the fire,the smoke
making your eyes red and tearful, your breasts heaving up and down, (and my eyes tireless by enjoying the charming scene.)
