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with a pearl fixed in it.
It feels languor
on seeing the unforeseen brightness
of the nails of the hands of the karapatri (saint)
and gets fever-struck.
It is why its white body is bloodless.
Both of the cheeks of the patra are round as well as shapely, are fleshy as well as lucid, in whose lucidity the golden earrings of the donor
by way of their reflection, compare themselves with the cheeks
are we deficient?
Brightness shoots from us
as from the rising sun,
we are round as well as shapely,
are of good colour and beautiful,
are golden, not red.
Still,
why is there the difference
between this brightness and that of the cheeks?
What is lacking in us?
Who knows the secret, whom should we ask, and how to ask?
Lo! The cheeks enlighten
the ear-rings entangled in the
340: Silent Soil
