Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 1

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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VAISHALI INSTITUTE RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. I
There is a similar context in another verse in which the deceived lady bids her lover go and not wipe her tears. It is just fit that the eyes that turned mad at the first sight and did not care to fathom his heart should be cursed to weep:
अवसर रोउं चित्र णिम्मिश्राइं मा पुंस मे णणाई | दंसणमेत्तुम्मतेहि जेहि हिश्रश्रं तुह ण णात्रं ||
In some verses the deceived ladies do not explicitly or even feelingly resent the conduct of their faithless lovers but just throw a hint to assert their knowledge of the perfidy. A lady cautions her lover who has misplaced his love that he will be only laughed at in his errand of offering protection to the thorny berry that stands out of the way and is ugly and devoid of fruit or flower :
उप्पह जात्राए प्रसोहिणीए फलकुसुमपत्त रहिश्राए । वेरीए वई देन्तो पामर हो मोहसिज्जिहिसि ॥ | 2
The verses addressed by their friends to frolicsome young women, sometimes to caution them in the stolen dalliance and sometimes to vindicate their honour, are ingenious, though not always of very refined taste. A lover's bite on the lip is concealed under the pretext of smelling a lotus with a black bee in it, the bee happening to sting the lady's lip:
कस्स व गहोई रोसो दटठूरण पिलाए सव्वरणं प्रहरं । सभमर पउमग्घाइणि वारिश्रवामे सहसु एहिं ॥ "
Most of these verses are extremely sensuous and suggest a mood of wild jubilations. Lovely women are said to captivate the heart with their smiles as well as tears, with their appeasement as well as anger :
कुविप्राो पसण्णाश्रो श्रोरुण्णमुहीम्रो विहस माणाम्रो । जह गहि तह हिमश्रं हरन्ति उच्छिन्न महिलाओ ||
The beloved is kissed a hundred times and embraced a thousand times but she never grows stale, age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
चुम्बज्जइ सश्रहुतं वरून्धिज्जइ सहस्सहुंतं वि । विरमिश्र पुणो रमिज्जइ पिए जणे णत्थि पुणरुतं ॥
Sometimes the amorous sentiment is taken to forbidden heights. One verse describes Parvati stripped of her clothes by Śiva as closing latter's two eyes with her two plams and the third one with a kiss:
1. Dhv. 3-16; 2. Dhv. 3-41; 3. Dhv, 1-4, KP. 135; 4. Dhv. 1-14; 5. Dhy 1-14,