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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
108. For translation vide DIVS. No. (2.6) supra.
109. His hand that only gave away in charity, stretched out only to receive his sword
whenever difficult battle-fronts needed him.
110. Spread your light elsewhere, O, Moon ! Do not rain it on the sea. My own
house, which is lighted up by the lustre of my wife's face which is a moon, hardly needs you.
111. People's time comes to an end while they think of their mother's breasts that
are white with milk in the early part (of life) and of the young damsel's breasts that are white with sandal - paste in the latter part.
112. Your fame, O, king, travels comfortably around in Amarāvatī, the city of Indra,
the lord of gods, the moat of which has been filled by your army by demolishing its ramparts and made even or levelled.
113. When I'll see my dear man/husband - the very sight of his will delight my
eyes, give happiness and contentment to my heart and shower my limbs with nectar!
114. Do not cast glances at him through a half - closed eye (i.e., don't cast sidelong
glances at him). Look at him straight. You will be able to see him much better and you will be regarded as quite innocent and guileless.
115. The scratches by her nails, the seizing of hair, beating and compressed lower
lip might make one suspect that the angry young woman is expressing her anger and pleasure (of sexual union) at the same time.
116. My dear friend, there are only two remedies for a heart scorched by the fire
of love : Sleep with the lover or with death - longed for (and imminent ?) death.
117. Bow down to either Madhumathana (i.e. Vişnu, Krşņa) or the lower 'lip of the
lotus-eyed ones who is decorated with a tremulous (Kaustubha-) jewel (which i.e., lower lip possesses the lustre imparted by the shining teeth or reflects the light of the teeth), who wears a gleaming yellow garment (which is drunk, that is, kissed in love-sports and is excellent), who wears a garland of wood (or wild-) flowers (which bears a series of tooth - marks caused by the bites in
