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40. Her half-tied braid was loose, being stripped of the jewel, which she had sent to her beloved as a sign of recognition; and her high bosom, white as refined silver, was drenched with streaming tears.
41. Her locks were unkempt and ruffled, and her face was covered with her tresses drenched with tears, and the hips were without the girdle; but her beauty was heightened because she had discarded the ornaments.
42. Her partly closed, dilated eyes were motionless and vacant, her heart being absorbed in her beloved; while joy flickered in the ripples of her tears as she heard the noise of the host of apes.
43. The traces of her tear-drops, partly mingling with the dust on her body, were pale red, dry and coarse; while her unadorned and pallid lips revealed their natural hue.
44. Her face appeared to be drawn out because of her worn cheeks, and resembled a crescent moon that fills out in the course of a few days.
45. She had on her the faint traces of her (discarded) ornaments, made distinct by the lustre of her body, and resembling yellow pigment applied to the body, but slightly rubbed off.
46. With her beloved close at hand, she was pining, with her eyes longing to see him, and her quivering arms eager to embrace him; even like an offended lady suffering on account of love, with her beloved close to her in the bed.10
47. Her limbs were languid and drooping because of redoubled anguish at the sight of the unbearable moon; i1 and her inert bosom was felt by the female demons, fearing she was dead.
48. Her face seemed to be covered, on one side, with the lustre of the (blue) gems of the ring, sent by her beloved,12 because she
8. See 1.39-42.
9. i.e., outside the walls of Lanka.
10. The imagery is that of a manini who keeps aloof from her offending husband, but secretly yearns for him. Lit. as if suffering on account of love etc.
11. Unbearable because she was a virahini.
12. Brought by Hanumat on his mission to Sitā,
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