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If, o wayfater, I desist due to shame, I cannot hold my heart. So I shall recite a Gatha Holding his hand you Conciliate him. // 71
That these my limbs do not come apart is due to the fact that they are preserved on account of the medicine of the hope of meeting you today or tomorrow. // 72
O traveller, telling him this Gāthā and winning over my darling, thereafter tell to him these five Dohās with great courtesy.// 73
Burnt by the fire of separation from you my darling, if I go to heaven, leaving you who is at my heart, it will not be a worthy course. // 74
O darling, Separation troubles my body even though you are there with in my heart, For good men the grief from another's insult is greater then that of death.//75
How should I tolerate great insult when you, the repository of heroism, are there ? Those limbs which you enjoyed are scarred by Separation.//76
That lad separation who is the accomplice of the god of Love struck so mvercilessly that the body was broken, but he could not strike the heart seeing that you reside there.// 77
With respect to Separation, I have no ability to match him so I remain bewailing. The keeper of went animals only look after them. The cattle hoard is to be turned back from roaming by the owners.// 78
My message is so extensive that I am unable to
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