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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
1244. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (336.112) supra. 1245. My friend, pay homage to the feet of the Mānadevată (the Deity of
Jealous-anger) only through whose favour your beloved falls at your feet;
the other devatás (Deities) being ineffective - powerless. 1246. For translation vide ŚPS. No. (1124.249) supra 1247. For translation vide ŚPS. No. (321.109) supra 1248. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (1094.244) supra
1249. Even in the presence of your rival (s) in love and in front of yourself he.
said to you "Be pleased" – Proud lady, what other reward would you expect for the anger you had shown?
1250. She was much ahead of her rival in the charms that make men desire women
and in her love. She caused as much torment to her rival - his other wife, as her husband admired her.
1251. That very residence of hers (i.e. of Satyabhāmā) with the celestial Pārijāta
planted at its entrance and full of the decorative arrangement of its flowers and with attendants plunged in joy, now looked quite different from what it was.
1252. Two moods commingled and enhanced her joy which made her body its
abode: her longing for the celestial Pārijāta tree was satisfied and her dear husband came back resplendent with victory over Indra, the lord of the
gods.
1253. My friend, in this world of mortals there is no lov, at all that is without
deceit. If there were such guileless love, who would be separated from his or her beloved? And if there were such separation who would continue to live?
1254. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (310.) supra. 1255. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (323.) supra 1256. Let him (my dear husband) by his faithlessness fulfil even the unfulfilled
