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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
it has no string (of similar quality)it can't have a proper twang.
139. Drinking from the hollow of his hands at a wayside watering place, the traveller
sees the young woman serving water to him, he lets it run through his fingers to prolong his drinking; the young woman on her part responds by pouring the thin stream still more thin.
140. Under the pretext of the difficult descent to the river Goda she lets her body
fall on his chest. He too holds her close to himself. Who could fault such an act of kindness on his part ?
141. The red dye of her lower lip which overnight was rubbed away by her husband,
was seen the next morning on the faces of her rivals / cowives,
142. As 'the eyes reddened by the early morning bath fail to show the colour of
passion-soft like that of young foliage, even so the eyes dinmed by doting passion fail to show signs of anger in them.
143. If her eyes had not closed on account of the extreme joy at the sight of her
beloved you could not have noticed the blue lotus worn by her on her ear. Could you ?8
144. Just as she looked at you in such a way as to convey her love and affection
for you, in the same way she looked at others also; that is an attempt to hide her special feeling for you.
145. He saw her but she saw him not, though he spoke to her she spoke not; and
when they met she greeted him not. From all these obvious facts shrewd people came but to the correct inference.
147. As he was coming out of his swoon, he fixed his glance angrily on the large
and round breasts of the celestial nymphs mistaking them to be the frontal globes / temples of elephants.
8. : the blue lotus on the young woman's ear wouldn't be detected as its colour would have become merged in the blue colour of her blue-lotus eyes extendig as far as her ears.
