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Subhasitas in Gunapäla's Jambucariyam
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३९ दुज्जणमेत्तीओ इव, जाओ निच्चं पि चणपराओ ।
लंघिय नियमज्जाओ, संज्झाराउव्व अथिराओ ॥ ४० मयणग्गिपलित्ताओ, जाओ निच्च पि कलुसियमणाओ।
बहुमायाभरियाओ, कुललंछणदाणपउणाओ ।। ४१ बुद्धिमया पुरिसेण, ताओ निच्च पि वज्जणीयाओ ।
जो पुण न बज्झइ च्चिय, ण सो बज्झिज्जइ इमाहिं ।। ४२ इय दिटूठनठतडिविलसियाण निच्च पि अथिररायाण ।
Afgau 179335, 41a' a'20197101? 11 (19.84-38)
33-34. Woman is, indeed, a well-lit flame of fire without fuel; a weapon without point or spike mud without the rainy season; a female serpent without a fang (?); the fall of lightning without cloud; a prison house without crime; a sword without iron.
35. The women, who are of inconsistent behaviour and who are devoted at a time to many in their hearts have some as the objects of talk only while they have others as objects of love.
36. A fish in a lake can be angled and a bird in the sky can also be caught. Even a revolving doll can olso be pierced. But the heart of a woman, which is captured at one time goes off at another. Thus it is difficult to be understood.
37. Women play lovingiy with one who is fit only to be hated while with one who was (formerly) the object of their love, they behave as if they have no affection for him. They love only when there is a cause (to do so) and they do not, when no reason exists.
38. They dance and dally with the ugly and avoid the handsome from a distance. How can there be a distinction between the ugly and the handsome in the hearts of these women ?
39. Like the friendship of the wicked, they are always intent on deceiving others and cross the bounds. They are as changing as the colour of the twilight.
40. Inflamed as they are with the fire of passion, they are always of impure minds and fully filled with deceit. They are able only to cast slur and slander on their families.
41. They should always be bidden good bye by an intelligent man. One who cannot be trapped at all, is trapped by these (women).
42, Who can go to (the very root of) real nature of these women who are given to cheating and who are of unstable love like the the movements of lightning which appears and disappears? (11. 25-34).
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