हंससंदेशः /229
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HAMSASANDESAM
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23. A vacant look, excessive sighing, a closed
lotus-face, tears in the form of a stream, continuous
lamenation, to such an indescribable state of misery has
she been reduced by unpreventable Fate, she who is
attached to me and whose frame is extremely slender;
verily (my) heart burns.
24. At the sight of that pitiable condition of hers,
even you will be unable to bear the intensity of grief that
will have welled up in your heart of its own accord; how
could those who are endowed with stainless souls, those
who are not born, as the ten-faced Ravana is, in some
undesirably low carnivorous race, how could they not
have compassion?
25. Plase spend the night in the following manner,
viz., in getting rid of your fatigue by lying down in the
long fresh water pond near that place, resting there to
your heart's content and enjoying the delights of it, in
awaiting the time fit for the sleep of the women folk
among the night-prowlers, which will be the period of
early dawn, and in pouring into her ears my message,
sweet with love.
26. O royal swan! Having slept as much as you
please on the conveniently spacious sand-bank bed, at-
tended on by fragrance-bearing breezes and cocl moon-
beams which remove the fatigue of (your) journey, may
you, who are looking forward towards a duty to be per-
formed, be awakened by the playful songs of the bees
that are usually hidden (during nights) in closed lotuses.
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23. A vacant look, excessive sighing, a closed
lotus-face, tears in the form of a stream, continuous
lamenation, to such an indescribable state of misery has
she been reduced by unpreventable Fate, she who is
attached to me and whose frame is extremely slender;
verily (my) heart burns.
24. At the sight of that pitiable condition of hers,
even you will be unable to bear the intensity of grief that
will have welled up in your heart of its own accord; how
could those who are endowed with stainless souls, those
who are not born, as the ten-faced Ravana is, in some
undesirably low carnivorous race, how could they not
have compassion?
25. Plase spend the night in the following manner,
viz., in getting rid of your fatigue by lying down in the
long fresh water pond near that place, resting there to
your heart's content and enjoying the delights of it, in
awaiting the time fit for the sleep of the women folk
among the night-prowlers, which will be the period of
early dawn, and in pouring into her ears my message,
sweet with love.
26. O royal swan! Having slept as much as you
please on the conveniently spacious sand-bank bed, at-
tended on by fragrance-bearing breezes and cocl moon-
beams which remove the fatigue of (your) journey, may
you, who are looking forward towards a duty to be per-
formed, be awakened by the playful songs of the bees
that are usually hidden (during nights) in closed lotuses.