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9. "Look you here, friend, this thirsty deer which
eagerly approaches you mistaking the brilliance radiat-
ing from your finger-nails for water, will surely move
away in shame, once the mistake is found out."
10. "You, moon-faced dear, move not a step lest
you knock against the moon-stone wall. But the reflec-
tion of your lotus-like face has already entered it."
11. "Oh, my foolish friend, why do you walk so
slow? You don't seem to realise that your roguish
lover will exploit this to court the company of other
women. For, this pleasure-forest, darkish with such
thick dust of fresh flowers, is eminently fitted for secret
thick dust of fresh flowers, is eminently fitted for secret
meeting even in day time.
12. "Oh friend, I know you walk very fast so that
you may overtake your lover in order to look back and
see his face. But you don't seem to realise that women
in their minds have the lover's face always in front of
them!
13. "I know you could not walk fast because of
your burdensome breasts. But, friend, walk fast you
must." (Slōkā incomplete).*
57. The king splashed water on a lotus in the
pleasure lake. And this made a lady cast on him angry
looks of jealousy, the fringes of her eye-lashes wet with
tears.
tears.
58. As the king touched nicely the upper part of
a lady's thigh underneath the water, she feigned fish-
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