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<ignore lang="en">HAMSASANDESAM
 
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<p lang="sa">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

lamen<fix>t</fix>ation, 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.
 
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<p lang="sa">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

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?
 
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<p lang="sa">25. Plase spend the night in the following manner,
<fix>e</fix>ase 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'
long fresh water pond near that place, resting there to
your heart&apos;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,

early dawn, and in pouring into her ears my message,
sweet with love.
 
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<p lang="sa">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 cocol 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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