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358) Oh my daughter do not indulge in haughtiness. For your consort is of unkind nature in his heart (relentless). Love is like the plantain (banana) tree, and once snapped (broken with a sudden jerk) cannot be rejoined (mended again).
359; Oh mother, the blighting frost in the form of pride is. the ruination itself of the lotus in the form of love the lotus which grows on the stalk in the form of (steady) affection and which has a pleasing fragrance in the form of abiding genuine feeling (sincerity) (AF17).
360) Give up your haughtiness and welcome your consort, before the autumn in which wine is so dear (to all) goes away. Oh daughter, what luckless person ever gets wine and amorous dalliance during the autumn ?
361) The lofty, stable and extensive mountain of pride which she had raised (in her mind) did not at all come within the range of the striking power of the thunderbolt of the glance of her beloved consort (and hence remained for long intact).
362) Though your consort prostrated himself at your feet, he was not heeded by you. Though he was talking sweet (flattering) words, you scolded him. When he departed, you did not stop him. Pray, tell me, for what did you indulge in this haughtiness ? (i.e. what did you gain by indulging in haughtiness?)
363) Pride (haughtiness) is really assumed only towards him who knows the sorrow resulting from the pangs of separation. What is the good of assuming pride towards a rock, which is in no way different from (i.e. is very similar to) a person devoid of feeling?
364) Oh daughter, you should indulge in pride (haughti-- ness) (towards your beloved consort), only after preparing your. self to face (or endure) sleeplessness, emaciation of the bodydrying up of the body (due to the heat of sorrow) and prolonged weeping (i.e. you can indulge in haughtiness only on peril of facing these four calamities).
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