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Chapter XI : (Vāgbhațālamkāra)
*1. King Sri Siddharāja, you deserve reputation as a man of adventure. How else
do I explain your assault on my mind which is being constantly riddled with the arrows of the God of Love ?
*2. So long as the rays of the moon have not spread on the earth, you better go
to the park with your face resembling the full disc of the moon.
*3. O, Cătaka (bird), you recite everything, you seem to be quite a scholar ! Please
tell me then when my dear husband would return (from his journey). *4. The (poetic) defect known as 'repetition' (or redundancy) does not apply in the
case of (sacred) study, meditation, austerities, (taking of) medicine, instruction, praise, and offering of donations and singing (the glory of the) virtues of the
good.
'5. The face of the gazelle-eyed maiden darkened when she saw the young man,
the abode of love (?) (moving about) with his ears decorated with strī flowers.
6. O, gazelle-eyed one, look, here is Rāvana with his ten faces terrifying with his
twenty eyes burning red, a moving forest, his twenty arms spreading out (moving) like the trees in it.
7. You, who are a heap of faults, with your mind ever swayed by inebriation, none• theless charming - in your absence she has withered as a moon-lotus does in
the absence of the moon—the maker of the night, the bearer of the stigma of the deer on him (lit. the night - maker with his interior filled with or marked by a deer).
8. Pay homage to the Jinendra - the Arhat (of the Jains), who is free from passions,
who has completely uprooted (or subdued) the four kaşāyas (passions of 1. anger 2. pride 3. deceit and 4. greed) by self-control and whose mind is always pure or tranquil (prasanna) like his body and whose body is always pure or tranquil like his mind.
9. O gazelled - eyed (or large-eyed) one, the swarm of bees rushes towards your
face taking it to be a golden lotus, towards your eyes thinking them be blue lotuses and towards your face always radiant with a smile, thinking it to be a
