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408 VAJJÁLAGGAM
1449*146. The Section on the Blessed (Lucky) Ones
449*1) Thus was this excellent group of stanzas composed by Lila,fond of Prākrit-the group of stanzas which is the cause of mutual recollection by young men and women and in which the words bounce (jump) like the galloping movement of horses. 47. The Section on Checking (or Curbing) of the Heart
454*1) Oh fickle heart, you are longing for that person though you are ignored (connived at) by him. Not gaining any foot-hold, you will bounce back from there like a ball dropped on a stone.
454*2) Oh foolish heart, in your fond (foolish) hope for union with that person (man), difficult to obtain, you will be carried far away (i. e, you will stray or go astray), just as a female deer is carried far away by a mirage.
454*3) If the eyes carry me away (after that man), let them do so. But, oh heart, how are you concerned here? (i. e. why do you allow yourself to be carried away ?) These eyes will climb up the (steep) bank, but on you will descend the blow of Cupid's fist (slap)!
454*4) Wipe your eyes, do not weep every day, give up your craze for him. Oh you foolish girl with deer-like eyes, how can any body sing the pañcama note after dying ?
454*5) Oh lotus-eyed girl, though warned (dissuaded) hundreds of times, why do you continue to yearn for that person? Even if a dagger may have been made out of gold, will it be wise to kill oneself with it?
48. The Section on the Virtuous Wife 462*1) A woman who is lazy in the matter of visiting other people's houses, who is completely biind (stone-blind) in the matter of looking at stranger men men other than her husband), and who is deaf in regard to what others talk-well, such a woman is the guardian Goddess (Deity) of the household and not merely the mistress of the house !
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