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65. THE SECTION ON THE HARE
65. The Section on the Hare
625) Dear girl, your consort, wandering about in the openings of the city-streets, will not be able to get away (escape) from the hands of beautiful women, like a handsome (lovely) (and simple-minded, unsuspecting) hare that has (by chance) entered an army-camp.
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626) Very great mental agony is caused even by an offence (wrong), though tiny like the husk of a sesamum grain (i. e. even by a trivial offence). Oh you lucky one (you who are wooed by ladies), the poor hare is killed even if its skin is slightly bruised.
627) Here is the rain-bow, here the thunder of clouds and here the shrieks of the pea-cocks. How is it that the traveller, like a good-looking (simple-minded) hare, does not notice this in the rainy season?
628) Whatever the desire of the one who is dear to the mind (heart), we ask about it in our mind. Oh hare, you are swift. How else could you live?
629) You are mentioning with your mouth your accursed (intended) departure (from here), whether in a light vein or seriously (I do not know). But, oh lucky one (or dear one), the poor hare is killed even if its skin is slightly bruised.
66. The Section on the Vernal Season
630) Mounted on the horse in the form of the forest,. accompanied by the sounds of musical instruments in the form of the humming of swarms of bees and cheered (greeted) with pleasant shouts of victory by cuckoos, his majesty the Vernal Season has come along.
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631) Let the spray of the mango-blossom alone, though of a dull, dusky colour, bear the name "blossom spray" (i. e. the mango-blossom-spray alone deserves to be called by the name mañjari-blossom-spray). Because that alone makes the swarms of bees averse to all other flowers (and draws them irresistibly towards itself).
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