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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics 597. You see, friend, whatever work you undertake, good or bad, does come
to an end, giving you whatever results. But an unhappy love-affair ends not when it ends.
598. Even the sight of the boundary of her native village where the sweetheart
lives fills the lover with rapture, what of the charming and endearing (lit. invaluable) face itself?
599. O charming one, when you come to visit me only as a matter of courtesy,
you delight my heart. How much of an excitement must it be to those whom you visit out of real love !
600. A look at the thighs of the farmer's daughter-in-law, smooth as the stem
of the plantain-tree, made the barber's hands so wet (with sweat) that his nail-parer (or pair of scissors) shook.
601. The prayers that the learned Brāhmaṇa is muttering and chattering on the
ghāta of the river God, will go on and on, without avail, so long as the lovely looking daughter of the washerman is there.
602. The cow-boy who was trying to keep his tryst was so much shaken by the
sidelong glance of the daughter of the master of the house (grhapati) that he didn't realize when the cow that he was milking had gone and the poor fellow was going through the empty gestures out in the air.
603. After enjoying the delights of love with me, he walked away only a step
and came back and embraced me. During that moment's interval I felt I was a grass-widow and that dear husband of mine was a traveller (far out in distant lands).
604. Like some presiding deity of a deserted town she wears on her head, even
now, the wreath which you once placed-there with your hands, though it is now withered and without (any shape or) fragrance.
605. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (451.135) supra
606. Even an aged cow yields milk at the touch of the milkman's hand because
of his dexterity. But, O young boy, it wouldn't be even with difficulty that you will secure a cow that would yield milk at your mere glance.
