the Songs op Jayade'va 19 j* 



♦ dropping fpeech ; on her lips ruddy as the berries of the Bimba ; yet 



* even my fixed meditation on fuch an affemblage of charms encreafes, in- 

 « Head of alleviating, the mifery of feparation.'* 



The damfel, commiffioned by Ra'dha', found the difcon-f3late God un- 

 der an arbour of fpreading Vdniras by the fide otTamuna j where,- prefenting 

 herf.lf gracefully before him, fhe. thus defcribed the« affliction of his.be-- 

 loved; 



* She defpifes efTence of fandal-wood, and even by moon-light fits brood-- 



* ing over her gloomy forrow ; me declares the gale of Malaya to be venom, • 



* and the fandalttrees, . through which it has breathed, to have be^n the 



* haunt of ferpents. Thus, O Ma'dhava, isjhe affiled in thy abfence with . 



• the pain y which loves dart has occafioned: her foul is fixed on Thee. Frefh . 



• arrows of denre are continually aflailing her, and (he forms a net of lotos- 



• leaves as armour for her heart, which thou alone fhouldft fortify.. She- 



* makes her own bed of the arrows darted by the flowery-fhafted God ; but,, 



• when (he hoped for thy embrace, (he had formed for Thee a couch of . 

 4 foft blofibms.. Her face is like a water-lily veiled in the dew of tears, and 



• her eyes appear like moons eclipfed, which let fall their gathered nectar . 



* through pain caufed by the tooth of the. furious dragon. She. draws thy 



* image with mufk in the character of the Deity with .five fhafts,. having , 



• fubdued the Macar, or horned mark, and holding an .arrow tipped with 



• <m Amra-flower } thus fhe draws thy picture, and worlhips it.v At the. 

 ' clofe of every fentence, M O Ma'dhava, (he exclaims, at thy feet am 

 ** I fallen, and in thy abfence even the mooo, though it be a vafe full of 

 " nectar, inflames my limbs." * Then, by the power of imagination, (lie 



• figures thee ftanding before her ; thee, who art not eafily attained : fhe 



