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२४
अमरुशतकम्
is worth a hundred works", and critics are not wanting
who have actually shown how these verses present the
various stages of plot and action as in a full-dressed
dramatic piece.
The love here depicted runs through the entire range of
emotional situations from the first almost supersensual
spring of the ripe senses into passionate desire, the absolute
dedication to love, the heart-ache which mere suspicion of
wavering on the lover's part may cause a maiden, the
furious jealousy which gnaws at the heart, to the ecstasy of
sexual surrender (35), with all its surging poetry of sensual
rapture, its honeyings and dalliance, and the sad and the
dreary prospect of a life without love, when the non-chalant
lover, in a society which allowed the male to take numerous
wives, after the first flush of passionate desire, is cooled in
his ardour or is kindled anew by the appeal of sexual
beauty of another rival, and the power of physical desire
drives him to break his vows. The poor woman is then just
another of his chattel (81); he may occasionally favour her
with his visits, may be courteous and gallant to her and calmly
suffer the rebukes with which she rebuffs him and protesting
his innocence may renew his vows of undying loyalty to his
Ilove (30); or of a coarser grain, he may turn up at dawn
after some sensuous erotic experience with another, that
leaves visible marks on his person, to the utter exasperation
of the pining woman whose heart is still loyal to him
(24, 16, 71). There is such heart-rending pathos in the song
of the neglected wife who laments the ruin of their ardent
love and finds life itself as a scourge with which she is
punished (38, 81 ).
When hearts have once mingled
Love first leaves the well-built nest;
अमरुशतकम्
is worth a hundred works", and critics are not wanting
who have actually shown how these verses present the
various stages of plot and action as in a full-dressed
dramatic piece.
The love here depicted runs through the entire range of
emotional situations from the first almost supersensual
spring of the ripe senses into passionate desire, the absolute
dedication to love, the heart-ache which mere suspicion of
wavering on the lover's part may cause a maiden, the
furious jealousy which gnaws at the heart, to the ecstasy of
sexual surrender (35), with all its surging poetry of sensual
rapture, its honeyings and dalliance, and the sad and the
dreary prospect of a life without love, when the non-chalant
lover, in a society which allowed the male to take numerous
wives, after the first flush of passionate desire, is cooled in
his ardour or is kindled anew by the appeal of sexual
beauty of another rival, and the power of physical desire
drives him to break his vows. The poor woman is then just
another of his chattel (81); he may occasionally favour her
with his visits, may be courteous and gallant to her and calmly
suffer the rebukes with which she rebuffs him and protesting
his innocence may renew his vows of undying loyalty to his
Ilove (30); or of a coarser grain, he may turn up at dawn
after some sensuous erotic experience with another, that
leaves visible marks on his person, to the utter exasperation
of the pining woman whose heart is still loyal to him
(24, 16, 71). There is such heart-rending pathos in the song
of the neglected wife who laments the ruin of their ardent
love and finds life itself as a scourge with which she is
punished (38, 81 ).
When hearts have once mingled
Love first leaves the well-built nest;