Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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of jambu, kadamba, mango, campaka, and aśoka. To whom did not the wind from Malaya, like water, give pleasure, made fragrant by union with fresh flowers of the trumpet-flower tree? The mahua, stored with sweet juices like a dish of honey, was filled with humming by the bees approaching. Balls were arranged, I think, under the guise of kadamba-flowers, to make practice of ball and bow 206 by the God of Love. The väsantiflower was made a well of juice for bee-travelers by Spring, as if devoted to establishing water-supplies for the public. The sinduvāra caused great stupor to travelers by its blossoms wealth of perfume hard to restrain like poison in the nose. The bees wander fearlessly like guards appointed over the campakas by the gardener of Spring. Spring showed a wealth of fine and superfine trees and plants, like the youth of men and women.
Gazelle-eyed maidens began to gather flowers there as if eager to give wealth to the great tirtha of Spring. “Since we have become weapons of Smara, what need of other weapons ?" as if with this idea, the amorous women gathered flowers. Her flowers having been gathered, pained by separation from them, the vāsanti cried out, as it were, by bees humming low. One maiden, when she had gathered jasmine, stopped as she was going away, because her dress clung to it, as if restrained by the jasmine, saying, "Do not go elsewhere." As one was gathering campaka, she was stung on the petal-lip by a young bee flying up as if from anger at the breaking up of his shelter. One, with her creeper-arm raised, gathered flowers very high together with the minds of young men who saw the hollow of her arm. Creepers looked like living gatherers of flowers, with hands that were masters of clusters of fresh flowers. The trees looked as if they bore women as fruit, with women clinging to each branch from the desire to gather flowers.
206 996. The kadamba flower is perfectly globular...