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say that under the close and dense shade of the other trees one can move for ten Yojanas. //64
That city is renowned in the four directions as Tapana - tirtha. It is also famous on earth as Mlasthana. From that place I have been sent as a writer. Under the order of that master I am going to Khambhitta.//65
Hearing these words the moon-faced, lotus-eyed woman heaved hot and long sighs, cracked her fingers, sobbed with pathetic uttrances. She trembled like a plaintain tremlling due to wi-gust.//66
Weeping for a moment, then wiping her eyes she said, 'The name of Khambhaitta, О wayfarer, shattered my body : My lord, who can extinguish my pain of separation, is there. Long time has passed, but still that cruel man has not returned.//67
O wayfarer you take pity on me and bend your feet for a while. I will tell a message for my darling in a few words. The wayfarer said, O girl of golden linbs, what is the use of weeping. Tell me what you have to say. Your eyer are sad, and you appear very emaciated'//68
She said, “The fire of separation from him who has gone away has not reduced me to a dust- heap, How I am to send a message with a cruel mind//69
When he on travel, I also did not go with him, nor did I die I am ashamed of sending a message, O wayfarer, to that darling.//70
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