1879.] G. A. Grierson — Some Further Notes on Kalidasa. 43 



The latter, however, she only allowed to approach her in pursuit of her 

 calling, while Kalidasa was admitted for pure love. For what will a woman 

 not do for love ? Does not the poet Vidyakara Misra say as follows.* 



" Lo, there are many bonds, but none like the binding of the toils of 

 love. Even the bee, skilled as he is in cleaving timber, lies helpless, — 

 bound in the hollow of a lotus." 



And again does not the poetess Lakhima Thakurain say : — 



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(1.) " Ah ! may I never love, but if I must, — let it not be with a 

 wanderer ; and if it be with such, may he not be full of excellence : and 

 even if it be thus, may my love be never broken ; and if it be broken, may 

 my life, which is not mine, be mine to cast away. 



* The following verses are generally quoted by pandits when telling this story. 

 As I have not noticed them in any of the usual Chrestomathies, I give them here, 



