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name of their family), checked in its advance by their will-power, do ? The poor fellow (i.e. passion) waștes away in its own body like a lion caught in a cage.
394) Oh Cupid, your flowery arrows will be burnt out (consumed), since you are aiming them at my heart, which is heated because of the fever caused by my beloved consort's separation.
345) Wine, rays of the moon, spring season, the (sweet) talk of lovely women, the singer of the fifth note (Pañcama note) (i.e. the cuckoo) -these are the servants of Cupid.
396) Oh Cupid, you are laudable, you are adorable, you are possessed of invaluable qualities (or you are great or estimable -because of your good qualities), since it was you who fashioned (i.e., caused) Gauri (Pārvatī) to reside in (or occupy) one half of Siva's body.
397) Oh Cupid (bodiless one), you will really become one engaged in plying your bow and one whose arrows hit their mark (correctly), if you aim your arrows in the preser lous glances of young women.
41. The Section on the Utterances (or wailings) of Men
(in separation) 398) How possibly may she not be remembered (how possibly can she be forgotten), in whom there reside (or who is the abode of) the (following) five things, namely, the notes of the lute, the flute, the ālāvaņi (a particular kind of lute), the pigeon (dove) and the cuckoo ?
399) How possibly may she not be remembered, the complexion of whose body is comparable to unheated gold, the middle region of whose body (the belly)is marked by the ripple-like triple folds (of abdominal skin), and who ravishes the minds of even the best of sages (self-controlled, righteous people)?
400) How possibly may she not be remembered-she, the young damsel delicate like a young, tender lotus. plant, who, touching the body with the finger-nails, creates the cloudy mouth of Bhādrapada unseasonably ?
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