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slack (or diluted). Thus your love for me depends on the shape and condition of my breasts. With whom shall I get angry ? (i.e., I can't get angry with you. If your love for me has become slackened and lukewarm , it is my breasts that are to blame for that and not you!)
66. For translation vide DHV S. No. (45.15) supra.
67. Who will benefit from evil or the wealth of the evil ? Only the evil, of course!
Crows alone eat the fruit of nimba, bitter even when ripe.
68. What can you say about liquor ? Its mere auroma inclines the mind to thoughts
of love, sinks jealousy into forgetfulness and rids you of shame!
69. Let warriors greedy for wealth, attack their enemy; but O, lion, by attacking
the (thundering) cloud what do you hope to gain ?
70. Why do you again want to wash off the decoration of mud stuck on your breast
by whom you know there is no harm in it during the spring festival of Holi. Besides, it has already been washed off by the profuse perspiration on the breasts!
71. For translatiivide A'Sarvasva - Vimarsini S. No. (*48.445) supra.
72."While the colour - pastils are operating the whole day in a wonderful way, thev not only do not become eroded (they not only not become smaller and smaller) (because of prolonged, uninterrupted use of the colouring material out of which they are made) but, (on the contrary) they (by śleşa - double entendre -, the curiosity, astonishment, and (restlessness or) unrest in the minds of people) grow ever more and more."
73. They say knowledge is the only protection against the bane of intoxication of
whatever kind, but will any one tell me what is the protection against the intoxication of knowledge itself ?
74. For translation vide A 'Ratnākara S. No. (73.559) supra.
6. Cf. ŚPS. No. (399.125) supra.
