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twanging of the bow-string, looked// 97
The traveller said, 'Have firmness and fortitude and take consolation for a moment. Wipe your fullmoon like face with your garm ent. Hearing his words, broken down due to separation, that girl, ashamed, wiped her face with the hem of her garment and said.// 98
O traveller, my strenth does not prebail against the god of Love, because, my darling who was devoted to me has lost affection for me, eventhough I have committed no fault. You tell one Mālins verse to that affectionlews, fickle rogue, who does not listen to another's grief.// 99
If at the end of love-making, I had known that your love has become lustreless and is drained, then I would have kept one pot filled with that fresh love and would have now dipped your disaffected heart in that. // 100
If a cloth has lost its colour it can be dyed again. If the body lacks oil it can be massaged again with oil. If one loses money in gambling), he can win back. But when the heart of the darling becomes disaffected how is one to behave ?// 101
The traveller said, 'o broad-eyed girl, be firm and keep your mind in its track. Put a stop to the constant stream of tears flowing from your mind eyes. Those who go abroad have many missions and hence they have to move about here and there. They do not return, till their purpose is accomplished. // 102.
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