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and fragrance of the Ketaki bud hummed in the forest. They did not mind being pierced with pointed thorns, because persons of taste care only for their tastes. One who is infatuated with love has no consideration for the evil (205-206). Seeing the spring, I was wonder-struck and hear, O traveller, the Ramaṇīya which I then said (207): Let Cupid, armed with the sharp tongues of the fire of separation roar. Having tolerated the intolerable, I still live in danger, while my husband, quite untouched by my love, carries on his business without an anxious thought of me' (208). The Kimśuka flower appeared like a shower of blood (?). Palāsas were veritable goblins. The Malaya breeze made everything unbearable. Sobhanjana (?) proved a source of unhappiness (209). The fresh blossoms which made the earth scarlet with their pollen added to my anguish. A cool, pleasant breeze blew imparting coclness to the earth (210).
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The Asoka flower is falsely so named by the people, for it did not remove my soka for even half a moment. My limbs were tormented, thanks to arrogant Cupid. It is my lord, not the Sahakara tree, that can still support me (211). Wresting this opportunity, the terrific separation reached its full stature. I heard the peacock dance and cry. Seeing him climbed on a mango-branch, I recited a Gatha (212): 'I am pained to see the peahens merrymaking as if they were in a stage-retinue (?). So also mistaking the skywards spreading trees for fresh cloulds, I am pained (213). After this I rose up crying and recalling my grief of long standing. Flames of separation burst up in me. Cupid shattered my body with arrows (214). For a while I felt the unbearable grip of death: Beautiful flowers adorned the ten quarters. Mango-trees spread towards heaven in compactness. Fresh blossoms appeared because of spring (215). The cuckoos (?) on the Suraktaka trees sang with gestures, as if to represent various sentiments. Bees were humming sweetly. Time was quite charming (216). Parrots moved in a circle (?) and cried merrily. O in this period it is very very difficult for the ladies enslaved by Cupid to go on living (217). Empty clouds scorched the body. How can one put up with the Cuckoo's notes? Beautiful women strolled in the streets. Clamour of trumpets filled the three worlds (218). The spring time was spent in dancing and singing Carcaris with Talas by ladies with
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