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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
56. What is the Vindhya mountain without its excellent (or lordly) elephants with
bees indolent because of their ichor ? Without the Vindhya mountain, elephants suffer hundreds of discomfitures !
57. What can you do with a master who has lost in the eyes of his servants all respect
and honour and also with a servant who has fallen low through continuous humiliation or repeated insults ?
58. Liquor diverts mind to thoughts of love, makes all the thin limbs of the beloveds'
bodies heavy and slow but mysteriously enough relieves the beloved ladies of the heavy burdens of jealousy and anger and makes them light in heart.
59. Sulkiness (or pride) over a period of time dies of itself though it is likely to
revive itself again even after a long time. The intoxication of liquor causes women to entertain feelings quite otherwise (It either makes living women get over their jealous anger or sulkiness which they have been nursing for long or arouse it over again when they had almost forgotten it )
60. The day on which the dear husband has promised to return home is very near.
Please deck me up with extra care. Today separation ends whether he comes or not.
61. In the course of the battle the king subdued one section of his enemy's army
but set it free whereas another section he slaughtered. The former won him merit in heaven and the latter fame on earth.
62. As these demons raised their heads swollen in pride and insolence, my head
too sank or hung down in shame.
63. We do honour to Visnu who in his third incarnation (avatāra) placed through
the heavy grunting of the boar, Adivarāha, on the disc of the sun, the stain of mud picked up from the nether world i.e., Pātāla.
64. For translation vide KPS. No. (64.435) supra.
65. “O, charming one! you minutely looked (i.e., gazed) at my face (only) when
my breasts looked up to your face (i.e., only so long as I was in my youthful age and my breasts were turned upwards (i.e., were firm and tough). But now when my breasts have become limp and sagging, your love for me has become
