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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 Vidyaékara Misra say as follows.* 
quaifa @ wala sefa 
TATA | 
eredafagar sf wig: 
fateqar wafa agsTas: 
“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 Thakurdain say :— 
Taq ae afe yafaaa va 
data GE aUaat a aH TArhy | 
aafe 4a wafa are Harty WaT 
u¥i sfq Ge wag swVATIATT: | 
fe yanefe 4 SraraawAare | 
vate fa afe a eaAQaae I 
eau fa afe aaa am qatar | 
fae at aware afe avast | 
Tarai 
waTyar stat safaaTerat fafrawra 
ae TET IATTUATATaaAt | 
am dem aCuafadaraieag | 
ay +e alfa anfa weueeatear ii 2 0 
SITS 
areay rat alaat wae | 
wat yur efeaat | vac I 
fare yarerers fea | 
aida Hat aaqasrarat te i 
(1.) “Ah! may I never love, but if I must,—letit 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 lite, which is not mine, be mine to cast away. 
* The following verses are generally quoted by pandits when telling this story. 
As I haye not noticed them in any of the usual Chrestomathies, I give them here, 
