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39. SECTION ON THE TRAVELLER
38. The Section on the Traveller
365) My hard-hearted consort is verily going out on a journey-that is what I hear people talking (or, that is what I hear talked among people). Oh revered night, lengthen yourself out to such an extent (or, in such a way), that it will never be morrow for him (to start his journey)!
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366) If you are determined to so, then do go; who can stop you, oh blessed one, from going? Your departure would spell my death-that is the inevitable mandate written down by Providence (halea).
367) If you are determined to go, do go by all means. There is no need of embracing me (7). For, touching a corpse leads to evil in the case of those about to start on a journey.
368) (Oh dear one) having resided in my heart you are departing today taking my life (along with you). Oh you who are thus playing treachery on (plunging into distress) the abode where you once lived, you will not be purified even though you might visit the (holy river) Ganges.
369) If you are determined to go, go (by all means). But why do you get angry, if the skirt of your garment is held (by me)? Who continues to live in your separation, he is surely realeased first (?).
370) I am not weeping, nor doing anything that is inauspicious; on the contrary, may all prosperity (and good luck) attend you (that is what I am praying for, for you). The reason why my eyes are dripping is that they have been irritated by the smoke of the fire of separation.
371) Oh you, the carrier animal of him that bears the moon as a crest on his head (i. e. oh you bull-oh fool), do not start on the journey at such a time when the copious (loud) notes of the carrier bird of Parvati's son (i. e. of Karttikeya, whose carrier bird is the peacock) are rising up on all sides (i. e. in the rainy season).
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372) Oh you, the carrier animal of him that bears the moon as a crcst on his head (i. e. oh you bull-on fool), oh blessed one, VL....21
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