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is as it were tormented by passion, and then reaches (communicates with) its female consort with its doleful cries." "वम्मह-णडिअंव is an उत्प्रेक्षा in which the drafit having a pale-coloured lotus for its face, is fancied poetically as a love-lorn woman, who also is BIRTI-CATHE (i.e., her face is comparable to a pale-coloured lotus — 3740 TM sa po UTRIT:)"
1453. This is GS 1.11. TRIEUT (TEFIRTEUT) mounting on the waist i.e., being worn
on the waist; (also mounting on the private parts of a woman in sexual intercourse); U31-GR (GR) - GR CRUI GRI CRIT SRT Serey I So 6790 = a golden waist-band or girdle which has secured its eminence (chef-HTET) by the grace of Agni and Varuņa (i.e., by standing the ordeal of fire and water). “The reference here is to the practice of heating gold in fire and then dipping it in water (during the process of making ornaments from gold)." – GK-Part II - p. 147, v. 158. Here 10- et is poetically imagined to be the nāyaka
on account of its natural position - it's being worn on the hips ! 1454. See ŚP S. No. (1229.268) above. Bhoja cites it here as an example of
upanāyaka. Here "Māna" (Jealous anger or Pride) is poetically imagined to
be secondary hero - उपनायक. 1455. See ŚP S. No. (197.83) above. Bhoja cites it here as an example of anunāyaka.
1456. Bhoja cites this (and the next three) stanza(s) with the introductory words:
TORT: milfafa57aefi for:, TRI-. a m. parting of the hair; Reren: m. white mustard.
1457. Dr. H. C. Bhayani thus restores the first half of the gāthā :
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The whole găthā may now be translated as follows : The eyes of the newly married young damsels move to and fro in the midst of their female friends - the eyes that were pleasing with gentle and bright-white smile and that resembled the lovely crescent moon and that were feeble (or languid) on account of a sense of bashfulness.
1458. This gathā is the same as cited earlier (p. 689, Mysore edn.) by Bhoja to
