Читать книгу Seven Hundred Elegant Verses - Govardhana - Страница 46

In the dice game, the stake was settled as the game of love which they hoped for. When she had managed to lose, she pretended to be angry, and made her girlfriends leave by saying, “Take these dice away!”

My girlfriend! Since you have praiseworthy qualities, that great man placed you on his head; but that you are fickle is due to your one fault, superficiality, like a flag that an important man has fixed with fine ropes on the top of his mansion, which its one fault, light weight, causes to flap.

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You with the lovely body! You removed the wet garment from your breasts and loins and hung it out in the air. Now it is drinking in the rays of the sun, as if it wanted to get back to you.*

When her foot was placed on the grinding stone, at the mantra “Be firm as a rock!” she was plunged into the misery of being married; but when she saw the face of her lover, she had to laugh.*

The other woman comes and goes, causing me trouble, like a bee sucking my honey. You alone are my supreme deity, like a Shri for the lotus that is my mind.

The sun straightaway abandons the northern course upon reaching the southern. Generally speaking, only compliant women will capture their man.