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67. SECTION ON THE SUMMER SEASON
365
(Tetafastya) and accompanied by Madhava (Kșsna) (F#147) comes along] 639) As the mango tree (AIETC) will go on growing in the
d (of my house), there will be great service rendered by it(HIIT = ATH = 3714 = 3471). (That was my idea or intention in planting the mango tree in the court-yard). But the spring season having arrived, the mango-tree is doing me great 'harm by drying up my fat, entrails and flesh. : 640)*
E641) "Do not be enamoured of the Sobhāñjanaka (tree or flower), which is productive of well-being (E6570137 = TÜFFF) as soon as it is seen. You will be broken"-thus was the daring lady ridiculed by all the people.
67. The Section on the Summer Season
642) The sun is glowing furiously (burning, scorching). because of its northward journey (अवर = अपर = उत्तरायण) [or because of the summer season (34 = 3795 = )) and the dust scorches, being warmed up (heated) by both the sun and the summer.
643) Oh you, whose husband has gone away on a journey: (leaving you all alone at home), take cheer. What you are seeing before you are the peaks of the Vindhya mountain, darkened by the black colour due to the forest fires (raging on them during summer), and not the (dark) new clouds of the rainy season.
644) The wild fire having completely burnt down the forest along with the wild animals and having then mounted a dried-up (withered) tree, scans (the whole of) the forest, as if to find out what still remains to be burnt down.
645) In the case of all trees, the branches grow out (emerge). from their roots (or from their main trunks). But blessed are those trees, which, by means of their branches, form their roots (or trunks) (i. e. whose branches, by sending down aerial roots. give rise to new roots (or trunks).
The sense of the gātha is obscure.
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