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Posts: 4397 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:58 pm

3.1.2. Recognition of the Signs (of Mutual Love)

1091
A double witchery have glances of her liquid eye;
One glance is glance that brings me pain; the other heals again.
There are two looks in the dyed eyes of this (fair one); one causes pain, and the other is the cure thereof.

1092
The furtive glance, that gleams one instant bright,
Is more than half of love's supreme delight.
A single stolen glance of her eyes is more than half the pleasure (of sexual embrace).

1093
She looked, and looking drooped her head:
On springing shoot of love 'its water shed!
She has looked (at men) and stooped (her head); and that (sign) waters as it were (the corn of) our love.

1094
I look on her: her eyes are on the ground the while:
I look away: she looks on me with timid smile.
When I look, she looks down; when I do not, she looks and smiles gently.

1095
She seemed to see me not; but yet the maid
Her love, by smiling side-long glance, betrayed.
She not only avoids a direct look at me, but looks as it were with a half-closed eye and smiles.

1096
Though with their lips affection they disown,
Yet, when they hate us not, 'tis quickly known.
Though they may speak harshly as if they were strangers, the words of the friendly are soon understood.

1097
The slighting words that anger feign, while eyes their love reveal.
Are signs of those that love, but would their love conceal.
Little words that are harsh and looks that are hateful are (but) the expressions of lovers who wish to act like strangers.

1098
I gaze, the tender maid relents the while;
And, oh the matchless grace of that soft smile!
When I look, the pitying maid looks in return and smiles gently; and that is a comforting sign for me.

1099
The look indifferent, that would its love disguise,
Is only read aright by lovers' eyes.
Both the lovers are capable of looking at each other in an ordinary way, as if they were perfect strangers.

1100
When eye to answering eye reveals the tale of love,
All words that lips can say must useless prove.
The words of the mouths are of no use whatever, when there is perfect agreement between the eyes (of lovers).

3.1.3. Rejoicing in the Embrace

1101
All joys that senses five- sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch- can give,
In this resplendent armlets-bearing damsel live!
The (simultaneous) enjoyment of the five senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch can only be found with bright braceleted (women).

1102
Disease and medicine antagonists we surely see;
This maid, to pain she gives, herself is remedy.
The remedy for a disease is always something different (from it); but for the disease caused by this jewelled maid, she is herself the cure.

1103
Than rest in her soft arms to whom the soul is giv'n,
Is any sweeter joy in his, the Lotus-eyed-one's heaven?
Can the lotus-eyed Vishnu's heaven be indeed as sweet to those who delight to sleep in the delicate arms of their beloved ?

1104
Withdraw, it burns; approach, it soothes the pain;
Whence did the maid this wondrous fire obtain?
From whence has she got this fire that burns when I withdraw and cools when I approach ?

1105
In her embrace, whose locks with flowery wreaths are bound,
Each varied form of joy the soul can wish is found.
The shoulders of her whose locks are adorned with flowers delight me as if they were the very sweets I have desired (to get).

1106
Ambrosia are the simple maiden's arms; when I attain
Their touch, my withered life puts forth its buds again!
The shoulders of this fair one are made of ambrosia, for they revive me with pleasure every time I embrace them.

1107
As when one eats from household store, with kindly grace
Sharing his meal: such is this golden maid's embrace.
The embraces of a gold-complexioned beautiful female are as pleasant as to dwell in one's own house and live by one's own (earnings) after distributing (a portion of it in charity).

1108
Sweet is the strict embrace of those whom fond affection binds,
Where no dissevering breath of discord entrance finds.
To ardent lovers sweet is the embrace that cannot be penetrated even by a breath of breeze.

1109
The jealous variance, the healing of the strife, reunion gained:
These are the fruits from wedded love obtained.
Love quarrel, reconciliation and intercourse - these are the advantages reaped by those who marry for lust.

1110
The more men learn, the more their lack of learning they detect;
'Tis so when I approach the maid with gleaming jewels decked.
As (one's) ignorance is discovered the more one learns, so does repeated intercourse with a well-adorned female (only create a desire for more).

3.1.4. The Praise of her Beauty

1111
O flower of the sensitive plant! than thee
More tender's the maiden beloved by me.
May you flourish, O Anicham! you have a delicate nature. But my beloved is more delicate than you.

1112
You deemed, as you saw the flowers, her eyes were as flowers, my soul,
That many may see; it was surely some folly that over you stole!
O my soul, fancying that flowers which are seen by many can resemble her eyes, you become confused at the sight of them.

1113
As tender shoot her frame; teeth, pearls; around her odours blend;
Darts are the eyes of her whose shoulders like the bambu bend.
The complexion of this bamboo-shouldered one is that of a shoot; her teeth, are pearls; her breath, fragrance; and her dyed eyes, lances.

1114
The lotus, seeing her, with head demiss, the ground would eye,
And say, 'With eyes of her, rich gems who wears, we cannot vie.'
If the blue lotus could see, it would stoop and look at the ground saying, "I can never resemble the eyes of this excellent jewelled one."

1115
The flowers of the sensitive plant as a girdle around her she placed;
The stems she forgot to nip off; they 'll weigh down the delicate waist.
No merry drums will be beaten for the (tender) waist of her who has adorned herself with the anicham without having removed its stem.

1116
The stars perplexed are rushing wildly from their spheres;
For like another moon this maiden's face appears.
The stars have become confused in their places not being able to distinguish between the moon and the maid's countenance.

1117
In moon, that waxing waning shines, as sports appear,
Are any spots discerned in face of maiden here?
Could there be spots in the face of this maid like those in the bright full moon ?

1118
Farewell, O moon! If that thine orb could shine
Bright as her face, thou shouldst be love of mine.
If you can indeed shine like the face of women, flourish, O moon, for then would you be worth loving ?

1119
If as her face, whose eyes are flowers, thou wouldst have charms for me,
Shine for my eyes alone, O moon, shine not for all to see!
O moon, if you wish to resemble the face of her whose eyes are like (these) flowers, do not appear so as to be seen by all.

1120
The flower of the sensitive plant, and the down on the swan's white breast,
As the thorn are harsh, by the delicate feet of this maiden pressed.
The anicham and the feathers of the swan are to the feet of females, like the fruit of the (thorny) Nerunji.