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to the lake.
34. For translation vide SPS. No. (164.75) supra
(Verse 35 is treated in the Notes.)
36. We curse ourselves for not having a thousand arms like Arjuna (i.e., Sahasrarjuna) or a thousand eyes like Indra or a thousand ears like Vasuki with only two hands to do you homage, only two eyes to see you and two ears to hear your praise, we feel inadequate.
37. For translation vide DHVS. No. (14.8) supra
38. The poets have looked on this world with all its vissicitudes now as a place of deep joy and now just worthless. Glory to them!
39. Don't chatter like a parrot in the language of parrots I am not a wretched parrot to understand that a female parrot alone knows that languge, not me, you rascal! 41. For translation vide SPS. No. (842.201) supra.
43. For translation vide DHV S. No. (12.29) supra
44. For translation vide SP S. No. (24.47) supra
45. The winter evening lighted by a faint moon fills young women with longing, they deck themselves up, send messages to their lovers and pretend to be angry and jealous.
46. For translation SPS. No. (110.63) supra
47. What have I to do with my father who receives homage from crowned kings (lit. Whose feet are touched by the tufts of garlands of flowers worn on their heads by kings)? Or, with my father-in-law, who shares the throne with Indra in the assembly of gods? Those countries, and those mountains and that forest alone are dear to me; there I can do homage to Kausalya's son (Rama) and rejoice.
48. The cloud roared and broke into a big sound like a kettle-drum, while it assaulted the sky and the earth exactly as the flashing streak of lightning directed.
