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to her defence of chastity; because ouder of Kurabaka has already knocked her nose. Yet she promises him scrupulously that her mind had not gone outside the premise which are in the high rank of esteemed poetry. Every word of this so called love-ditty is significant. We can find here five points in echelon. At first the spring to which nothing is impossible has broken out. Secondly, yet he has not returned, hence he is definitely a dullard. Thirdly the sweet smell of Kurubaka is reaching slowly the tip of her nose through gentle breezes. Fourthly, still her mind as it is scrupulously exact, is not nourishing evil thoughts. In fifth place she is avoching this with all faith (saccambhaņāmi). Thus the charm of this ditty is indescribable.
Another lady in view of her pangs of love observes at the spring in a different way. She was prevented from going out for the sake of death, by her mother-in-law, as the Malayamāruta, full of strong fragrance was blowing like a facer. "But", she says -- "who is to die surely on account of the scent of the Asoka tree (which blossoms in the spring only) must die.38 She rises in desperation against her life in this state of deprecation.
It is very interesting to note the observation of a lady with enormous pains gifted by Cupid, on the spring, who did not wish to waste the rejoices of the spring. She was deprived off her union with her husband nearly for six months by her pregnancy. After her delivery again it took five or six months for the rise of teeth to her child. It is for this that she was suppressing her vehement longing for love sport that according to the Dharmaśāstra the union of the husband and wife after delivery is permitted only after the rise of teeth to their child. 39 Now the lady, when she finds the teeth in the mouth of her child, is immensely saliated, and thus she waits for the inclination of her husband for a few days. But, when she found her husband reluctant, in view of the advent of Vasanta, she a with a smile plainly gives her child to her husband and expedites
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