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jealousy! or did you see some other cause to hate me, that you now seek to find a heaven-born nymph?! 634
"But why should one excelling in every personal grace seek to practise self-denying austerities! is it that you despise a common lot with me, that variance rises in your breast against your wife! 635
'Why does not Rahula fondly repose upon ? your knee. Alas! alas! unlucky master! full of grace without, but hard (diamond) at heart! 636
The glory and the pride of all your tribes, yet hating those who reverence you! O! can it be, you have turned your back for good (upon) your little child, scarce able yet to smile+! 637
My heart is gone! and all my strength! my lord has fled, to wander in the mountains! he cannot surely thus forget me! he is then but a man of wood or stone.' 638
Thus having spoken, her mind was dulled and darkened, she muttered on, or spoke in wild mad words, or fancied that she saw strange sights, and sobbing past the power of self-restraint, 639
Her breath grew less, and sinking thus, she fell asleep upon the dusty ground! The palace ladies seeing this, were wrung with heartfelt sorrow, 640
Just as the full-blown lily, struck by the wind and hail, is broken down and withered. And now the
1 'A Devî of the Pure abode.' The idea seems to be that, finding Yasodharà less pure than a Devi, he had gone to seek the company of one of these.
? Or, below your knee, i.e. sitting or fondling around the knee. * Or, the full-brightness of your illustrious family. + Your child not yet a boy.'
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