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429) Oh young man, when you departed, she unsteadily directed her eyes to the openings in the enclosing (surrounding) fence, one after another, and consequently she behaved just like a bird shut up in a cage.
430) Oh youth, what possibly did she then, looking at you again and again, not say to you with her glance, dull (in its movements) because of the load of tears welling up inside the eyes?
431) Oh fortunate one, in your separation .her trembling heart went out in all directions, like scanty water which rushes up (and spreads in all directions), when pressed down by the foot of an elephant.
432) Oh lucky one, even to this day she bears (carries) the crumpled garland, though devoid of fragrance, which was given by you with your own hand, as if she were the tutelary deity of a deserted city (in ruins).
433) Oh handsome youth, that slender damsel has become so emaciated day by day in your absence (separation), that she wanders about holding aloft her arms, 1or fear that the loosened bangles may slip down (and be lost).
434) The garland of lotus-stalks, daily placed on the region of the swelling bosom of that young damsel, heated (tormented) by separation from you, produces a crackling sound (as when a moist thing is thrown into fire).
435) Oh cruel one, because of you she has given up wine and cosmetics (Tarefa471) and her whole and sole diet (ordinarily) is water alone (amareri) and she eats food only once a month (ATATERT) and hence she is comparable to a Pulinda woman, who applies elephant-ichor to her body as cosmetic (173hafaqat), whose only abode is the forest () and who eats the meat of wild animals (HTATEITI).
436) Oh young man, that damsel, in your absence (separation), rests her forehead on her hand and does not even for a moment leave her bed.stead (egaleat, and hence she may be said to have become a female ascetic of the Kāpālika sect, who carries a
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