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32. SECTION ON THE EYES (GLANCES)
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290) That songs in the Pañcama Rāga are heard, that the God riding on the Bullock (i. e. God Siva) is worshipped and that the pleasure of the intimate company of one's heart's beloved is enjoyed that alone is the quint-essence of life (in this world).
32. The Section on the Eyes (Glances)
291) Oh charming girl, your eyes black and white (i. e. dark at the centre and white in the remaining part), endowed with a sharp and piercing quality and capable of taking the life of menwhom do they not kill like a sword?
292) The eyes of young damsels indulging in the twisting (twiching) of the tremulous corners, fall just where the fulness (weight) of (their) love is located (focussed).
293) The glances of love-lorn persons, indicative of their mental agitation (or accompanied by mental agitation), full of graceful movements, blooming (dilating) forcibly (or hastily), charming and unrestrained, can be detected even in the midst of a hundred thousand.
294) Only where the eyes (of young damsels), tremulous, bright (sparkling) and possessed of long, graceful eyelashes, move (descend or turn)-only there Cupid, his bow equipped with arrows stretched as far back as the ear, rushes.
295) Whose heart is not pierced by the glances of a young damsel, darted from her slanting eyes, throbbing and dull (slowmoving, weighed down) with emotion and descending on (or hitting) a person, as if they were a volley of Cupid's arrows?
296) Oh fair one, your eyes are completely filled (i. e. filled through and through) with poison. Even as they are (i.e. in their natural state) they kill people. Oh un-abashed one! Why are you applying collyrium to them?
297) The young damsel impassioned under the influence of Cupid (i. e. intoxicated with passion) and possessed of eyes with a slight application of collyrium and looking like blue lotuses, roams about frightened like a female deer.
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